This must have been a real pain to paint – literally. More about the artist here.
Archives for July 2006
Painful Painting
Posted on July 4, 2006 ·
Candidate for the Dumbest Company Award
Posted on July 4, 2006 ·
“We have heard of at least one case where a company took steps to disable USB ports on their PCs with superglue,” SurfControl Australia’s managing director, Charles Heunemann, said.
Ahhhhhhhhhh… read the story at News.com.au
Uninstalling Google Desktop may “break your internet”
Posted on July 3, 2006 ·
This one’s from Digg:
“According to Google’s online help files, uninstalling Google Desktop may break your internet. Although Google offers several solutions to the problem, it leaves one wondering if this is a Microsoft-like tactic of breaking the system on uninstallation (as the uninstallation of Internet Explorer will break Microsoft Windows), or an honest mistake…”
I still believe that The Solution to your GDS Problem is CDS. 
Tags: google, google desktop, desktop search, gds, cds, copernic
Google is the World’s Fourth Largest Server Manufacturer
Posted on July 2, 2006 ·
So you thought Google was a search… advertising … software … information …etc. company? Well, you’re in for a surprise:
“Google is the world’s fourth-largest maker of computer servers, after Dell, Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M.” -says Martin Reynolds, an analyst with the Gartner Group.
Yes, that’s right. Google believes that “its growing cadre of world-class computer scientists can design a network of machines that can store and process more information more efficiently than anyone else. Mr. Reynolds estimated that Google’s computing costs are half those of other large Internet companies and a tenth those of traditional corporate technology users. ” They built hundreds of thousands of servers, typically skipping the box, laying down components on a bed of cork, more recently fastening them together with velcro. Currently they are AMD’s fifth largest customer, and there is speculation that they mey be getting into designing their own chip.
Read the full story at the New York Times.
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