Rants

I used to frequent the site MacPerformanceGuide.com as I found it was a quite good resource for performance tuning Macintosh computers.  However some things that dude says are just purely ridiculous.  Take for instance this article, where he talks about backups.  Now I am all for making backups - I consider myself a bit of a paranoid obsessive person when it comes to backups.

How do you report an email not working problem to your IT support vendor?

You email them….

Doh!

It is simple - they always exaggerate the truth.  Take Gizmodo for example…

The Biggest Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet

I mean, come on… scientists have barely discovered the first signs of what could be a pure diamond based planet, how on earth can anyone abuse hyperbole to this extent of pure lies?  How does this journalist know that there are not other larger diamonds in the form of asteroids or dead stars in the universe, as it is an immense area and impossible to fully explore?  That title is misleading, and all it needed was one little word:

The Biggest Known Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet

But noooooooo… He cannot even claim that he was out of print space, as this is an online article.  Shame on you.

Anyone who has a keen interest in things computer related might have heard about the new flame war going on regarding the proposal to drop the version number from Firefox.  This is part of a bigger goal to do away with the traditional release cycle where a major version is released every couple of years, including major changes.  Instead, Firefox took merely 2 months to jump from the first 5.0 release to the 6.0 release, which has been officially released today.