In article <t9Dck.11617$cW3.1640@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"ed" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Alan Baker" <alangbaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:alangbaker-4A517B.22291507072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <http://www.davidalison.com/>
> >
> > And not a lightweight:
> >
> > "Back in 1998 I launched WebSurveyor, a tool for building online
> > surveys. Over time I added some partners (Tom Lueker and Bruce
> > Mancinelli), we got some angel funding and slowly we built up a pretty
> > successful business. Actually it wasn't so slow - we managed to hit
the
> > Inc 500 list a couple of years in a row. Without going into too much
> > detail in the begining of 2006 we began talking to some folks about
> > selling the company and finally hitting our equity event. In June of
> > 2006 we sold the company to Austin Ventures, an Austin, TX based
venture
> > and equity firm."
> >
> > All the wintrolls here should read his blog.
>
> "I can see that a memory card reader-something I wish Apple had just
> included on the machine-is an option, the Compact Flash format my Canon
> DSLRs use are too large to fit in the slot." haha. :D
Wow. It bothered him so much that he sold his Macs and switched back to
Windows.
No, wait.
>
> (so did you ever finish putting together that response about connecting
a
> camera via usb cable vs a card reader?)
Nope. Bored of you.
--
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix
with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on
Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
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