http://www.fatefulharvest.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:00:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post. Also vanquished at almost exactly the same time was the Western European encoding. One disadvantage Unicode has over ASCII, though, is that it ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/09/04/google-unicode-conquers-ascii-on-the-web/ Microsoft's most recent update for Windows caused many people using Check Point's ZoneAlarm firewall to lose their Internet connection. The patch fixes a potential DNS-related security breach that affects servers and clients alike, so I'm sure Microsoft was compelled to release it as quickly as possible. Choose either option that prevents ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/29/put-a-leash-on-windows-automatic-updates/ With a handshake, Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, right, transfers command to Expedition 19 commander Gennady Padalka. Crew, from left to right: Charles Simonyi, Michael Barratt, Padalka, Yury Lonchakov, Fincke, Koichi Wakata. "There is a possibility that one of Space Adventures' clients could launch on Soyuz TMA-16, which is currently scheduled ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/space-tourist-crewmates-set-for-april-8-landing/ Our servers are spread out across the country so you can choose the servers closest to you to minimize latency. If you are in Europe you would use our east coast servers, in Asia, our west coast servers. It makes a big difference. I have used the service from China, ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/a-vpn-debate-witopia-and-hotspotvpn/ I'll update this when I have a response. Jay Adelson, the company's CEO, posted a blog entry on Friday in response to a rampant rumor that Microsoft, Google, and two major media companies were placing bids on the hot start-up's price tag. A sizeable number of avid Digg users were ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/diggs-ceo-shoots-down-bidding-war-rumors/ Updated 2:55 p.m. PST with January and year-ago figures for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. (Credit: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search) The trends are similar to those reported for February recently by ComScore--which had Google's U.S. search share rising to 59.2 percent in February; Yahoo's and Microsoft's slipping to 21.6 percent and 9.6 ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/google-us-search-market-share-up-yahoo-down/ Here's the man of the hour (or of several hours from now, anyway). A lot of people in the stands are simply chilling, taking in the high-altitude sun, and snapping photos of the occasional media celebrity passing by. A good handful of people are also sitting with their laptops ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/theres-electricity-in-the-air-as-crowds-await-oba/ Continue reading Porsche's winter fantasy camp, part 2 >>> While the weather was still fair, a team of designers mapped out the track circuit, careful to avoid obstacles such as sand traps. When winter hit, the builders used a "snow cat" tractor to pack snow into the grass over a period ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/porsches-winter-fantasy-camp/ Ballmer said that Microsoft did know the fines were coming when it made its big interoperability announcement last week. Asked whether he was surprised it has taken this long. "Many acquisitions, they take this long," he said. However, Ballmer stopped short of saying that Microsoft's regulatory hurdles were behind it. "This is not ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/ballmer-on-eu-yahoo/ From the competitive standpoint I can't point to a single account where Mule has lost to Iona or Progress (though I am sure they exist) in our multithousand user base. Now the odds are even lower. Having dealt with Iona personally over the last two years as they have "participated" ... http://www.fatefulharvest.com/index.php/2010/08/24/progress-software-acquires-iona-good-luck/