Like the many fanboys I interact with, I was excited to track my iPad’s progress as it left Shenzhen, China, landed in Anchorage, Alaska, and worked its way to my door. But I noticed something odd about my UPS tracking numbers, and it inspired a hack that could reveal the true number of iPads to be delivered as well as their destination, two pieces of information Apple does not want us to know!
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iPad Was a Hoax, Admits Apple
Steve Jobs admitted today that the iPad was a hoax intended to demonstrate his company’s unprecedented marketing prowess. “We mocked the whole thing up in Photoshop,” Jobs told reporters during an 8 AM conference call. “While we assumed that the so-called social media world would embrace anything we announced, we were shocked that the technology and business press didn’t expose our game.”
Review: Blue Snowball USB Microphone
I’ve really jumped into recording podcasts, and am also an avid audio and video conference user. Wanting better sound, I upgraded my Logitech microphone to the highly-regarded Blue Microphones Snowball desktop USB microphone. Here are my initial thoughts.
Multipath: Active/Passive, Dual Active, and Active/Active
Although it’s rare in the PC world, multipath I/O is not new in enterprise IT. I’ve been juggling paths to storage and networks as long as I’ve been a systems administrator, and that’s a bit longer than I care to admit. But the proliferation of technologies has made it difficult to understand path management. What’s the difference between “dual active” and “active/active”? Is “active/passive” really that bad?
Is There Anything We Don’t Know About The iPad?
Although subjected to Apple’s usual silent treatment before the big unveil, Apple has released waves of detail since. Yet, even as pre-orders are shipping, there are still many things we don’t know about the iPad. What surprises are in store?
