After careful study and a long engagment, one of my counterparts at our trusted partner (a giant in the outsourced technology business) and I have come up with what we believe to be a very elegant and thorough solution to bottlenecks encountered when backing up massive amounts of data to tape drives or other storage [...]

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I hadn’t taken advantage of the “for:” tagging feature in del.icio.us yet, but Fred Wilson shipped me my first for:scottpartee tag the other day and gave me a heads up via e-mail. It was a link to a band he thought I’d like. I did. I liked that band! (can you tell I’ve been reading [...]

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Yo, peeps. I’m all hooked up on Skype and it rules. I got Skykpein and Skypeout, so find me on there as “scottpartee”. If you want my Skype telephone number, contact me and I’ll shoot it your way. Skypein, which is currently in Beta, is an amazing service and, in my opinion, the future of [...]

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I’ve found that I work much better from home if I go ahead and get dressed rather than attempting to live the geek dream and work in my underwear. I guess that’s a me problem.

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I opened my first bug report with Apple a few weeks back. After the upgrade to Tiger, I found many, many bugs. Most were instantly noted Internet-wide, but another that I found has not been mentioned anywhere and was not fixed in the 10.4.1 release of OS X. Here is the text of my hastily-typed [...]

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Two slackers, returning from coffee run, overhear two Windows Nerds, walking toward a conference room. WN1: His package screwed me up! WN2: You installed his package? WN1: Yes, and I didn’t have this problem until I installed his package

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Sometimes I love technology corporate life. If nothing else, it provides for endless Schadenfreude, empathy and “strange loops.” Witness, the following exchange I just heard on a conference call: Project Manager: OK. Let’s go over our deliverables that have slipped. Developer? Have you managed to finish up your release? You were due last month. Developer:We [...]

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I brought my old Powerbook into work today. The geeks are drooling. I’ve probably sold 10 macs today. It’s a quick sell: First, you show them how you can move the software around from place to place with no impact. Drag an app from the “Applications” folder into your home directory. Launch it. Quit the [...]

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Shouts to my main man “Tim”

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I accidentally did the ol’ “rm r mt*.cgi” in the wrong directory and had to do an emergency installation of a new version of Movable Type, the software that runs this site. Needless to say, there are numerous problems. I’m sleepy and don’t feel like battling computers right now, so please try not to notice [...]

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Doing some nerd reading today, I came across this little nugget of prose: Enter the URN. URN stands for Uniform Resource Names. URNs are legitimate URIs, but they don’t point to anything. Not only do URNs not point to anything, but they obviously don’t point to anything; no one will waste time putting a URN [...]

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I just received the most clever and scheming phishing attempt of my long Internet career. Addressed to me, from a seemingly legitimate Suntrust Bank email address, I received the following image: Now, how did I know it was fake right away? I don’t have a Suntrust bank account! But if I did, and I weren’t [...]

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The mask drops, and the nerd emerges! Okay, so you may never have been fooled, but I’ve spent a good part of my day reading blogs.sun.com. For the nerdly among us, it’s good reading. Slashdot is running with the Solaris versus Linux, but my favorite read by far was this blog about Sun’s new ZFS [...]

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I’m so sick of Internet Explorer! After lots and lots of work and tweaking, Nate and I had this site looking spiffy in all of my target browsers: IE6, Safari, Firefox/Mozilla. Basically, I made the decision to support only the currently-shipping browsers on the major platforms and damn the rest to viewing my “lo fi” [...]

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I sure feel like I know the score now, because six nerdy white guys concur that you can use alternative browsers and still smile. Personally, I switched to Mac OS X and use Safari and couldn’t be more pleased with my browsing experience. Unfortunately, my bank forces me to use IE. In fact, I think [...]

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