Apple’s DST solution ‘very poor’, say local users

Daylight savings time started yesterday here in New Zealand (earlier than usual), but while Microsoft was out informing customers and distributing patches, Apple simply recommended customers manually put their clocks forward an hour. This is a very poor solution, says one local developer.

It seems New Zealand at least is not high on Apple’s “important market” list… Where is it again?

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Outside US or Europe - Should you buy an iPhone?

If you aren’t in the ‘blessed’ countries where the iPhone is (or will be) officially released so far (US, UK, Germany and France), the only way you can have an iPhone that works is to (a) get one on the ‘gray’ market and then (b) unlock it with one of the various ‘hacks’ now available. So, with Apple now committing to a game of cat and mouse with the unlockers, is it still worth buying one?

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Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want.

These are pretty bold words (once again from Don Reisinger) but once again, I have to say I agree with him. Vista may be perfectly fine for many users, but my gripe is that I believe Microsoft is capable of MUCH better. Never mind the competition, what about just out-performing themselves?

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Is Apple in danger of losing its following?

When the iPhone first hit store shelves, Apple was on top of the world. But just a few months later, it’s amazing how quickly things have changed. Mac sales are still strong, but the iPhone has become the topic of heated debate, Apple has come under fire for dropping the iPhone price too early and too substantially, and its iTunes Store is under attack from content producers and new, formidable competitors.

This is a great article by Don Reisinger that I completely agree with. Apple is going to have to be very careful to ensure its next moves don’t push its currently loyal users over the edge!

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Today’s Disaster Recovery Maze

Ah, the good old days. Planning for disaster recovery, if it occurred at all, was one of the easier things an IT manager had to do. Of course, things have become steadily more complicated over the years…

This is absolutely true and of course means that your systems and application design must now include DR provisions up front. The days of getting to DR once the system is up and running are long gone.

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European regulators on the rampage? Maybe not

Without a doubt, the reverberations of a European court’s decision to uphold stiff remedies for Microsoft’s anticompetitive behavior were felt in more than one legal office in Silicon Valley. The top three candidates? Intel, Google and Apple.

Personally, I think Apple needs to get back to focusing on giving the user the best experience possible - isn’t that what they do best? Not these pathetic lock-in restrictions to ensure share-holder revenue. Restrictions are not required if you are simply better than anyone else…
“Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton, 1887.

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