With the rise of popularity of 802.11b, there are two promising work on higher speed Wifi: 802.11a that on 5Ghz range and 802.11g that on 2.4Ghz range. Both boast of similar speed at around 54mbps but 11g is backward compatibility with 11b whereas 11a isn’t. And as 11a runs on different spectrum, you need another […]
Month: June 2004
Apple WWDC
I am here at the Apple WWDC 2004 in San Francisco. The stuffs Steve Jobs revealed are amazing: from 30inch Apple display (drool) to multiparty video conference in OS X 10.4 Tiger using H.264 codec. Tiger also feature stuff like integrated Search in the file system which makes Sherlock like childplay and cool stuff like […]
There is stupid, and there is Stupid
Telepocalypse has an interesting article about when it’s dumb to be stupid. This was observed and codified by some smart people at Sun over a decade ago as the Eight Fallacies of Networking. 1. The network is reliable. 2. Latency is zero. 3. Bandwidth is infinite. 4. The network is secure. 5. Topology doesn’t change. […]
Sharing Wifi
Was about to leave for the pre-WWDC party tonight when I saw someone wandering at the corridor with his Apple notebook, scanning with Mac Stumbler for an open Wifi network he can use. So I asked him wait while I go back to my room, turn on my Airport sharing and let him access the […]
Fahrenheit Reservation
Reservation : An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance as defined in dictionary.com but apparently not the same definition used by San Francisco Marriott who cancel my room reservation. They bumped me to the Palomar Hotel across the road for tonight and I still have problem for Monday night. This really sux! Anyway, […]
Loic Rocks!
Loic Stealth Disco Liz! Sweet! (He definately looks cooler then me :-)
Stealth Disco
Rule 1: Don’t join IRC channel when you are on a panel or you be forced to Stealth Disco your fellow Panelists. Well, luckily Jeffrey Blumenfeld, a partner at Crowell & Moring is pretty cool about it. (Jeff Ganek, CEO of Neustar is sitting beside Jeff Blumenfeld) (Photo taken by Loic) See more photos here […]
The Future of Work
The Future of Work by Thomas W. Malone Thomas distributed some of his book after his keynote speech at Supernova 2004. I like his speech and I am sure I will enjoy his book too.
Supernova 2004 Day 1
Finally, I understand why Supernova has a “Get Connected” tagline. (Oh, check out Supernova blog. Fast Company also have a very good blog transcripting the event.) The human network here is incredible, many cool people, many CEOs, MDs and VCs and many bloggers. And it is nice to meet some old friends (John Patrick, Adam […]
The average blogger may not be that 13 years old girl
Read more in this eMarketer article about who are the Bloggers (via Loic) “Exactly 61% of the blog readers that responded to the survey are over the age of 30, and 75% make more than $45,000 a year. In fact, nearly 30% of the respondents are between the ages of 31 and 40, and over […]