Mortens Blog

Apple to catch up with Microsoft' saving account

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:44:22 GMT

Microsoft is still the worlds richest company with around 23 billion dollars in its valet. But Apple might soon catch up. Apple now have a 20.8 billion dollar in cash and is adding a nice one billion dollars to it every quarter at the moment.

Steve Jobs Confirms Kill Switch for iPhone Apps

morten@rokosz.no — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:43:49 GMT

Apple has apparently included a blacklisting mechanism in iPhone OS 2.x via which the device can phone home, check for unauthorized applications, and disable them.

8th of August 1876

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:26:42 GMT

Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph. It will dominate the world of small-press-run publication for a century.

The mimeograph machine (commonly abbreviated to mimeo) or stencil duplicator, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs were for many decades used to print short-run office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. These technologies began to be supplanted by photocopying in the 1960s, although in mid-range quantities, mimeographs are still more economical than photocopiers. Photocopying and cheap offset printing have replaced mimeography almost entirely in developed countries. But mimeography continues to be a working technology in developing countries, since the machines are more energy efficient and no electricity is required. However, some slightly more modern machines used electricity for power.

Read the whole article on WikiPedia.

08.08.08 @ 08

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:20:30 GMT

This is the time when all the Olympic spirit will ignite in peaceful glory in China. 8 years in the planning, 40 billion dollars spent, and 8 is a Chinese lucky number.

DimDim is not so dumbdumb...

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:54:58 GMT

The last moths I have been using a free WEB meeting service called DimDim. This is a great tool with a price/performance ratio hard to beat.

The drown side of summer...

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:23:03 GMT

Most of the inhabitants in Norway live close to water. Either by living in one of the places along the coast, the fjords or by some inland lake. For this reason it is quite surprising to read that Norwegian' 10 years old children turn out to be on the bottom of the ranking in Europe based on the requirements for swimming skills needed.

Microsoft Windows: Expiration date getting closer

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:37:23 GMT

Is Microsoft working on a new OS?

I want to fly away...

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:06:26 GMT

Forget about being trapped in traffic in the near future. It will be so much better when we all just fly around. Then we will have the much more preferable situation of total chaos in the air. Anyway, the future is here, now, today. If you only have 100 000 dollar and some good sound protection for your ears.

Have a look here: Jetpack in action

That is a long running show...

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:55:07 GMT

I hope Tom will forgive me one day, but this was to good to leave out.

Keep an eye on that Apple...

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:44:37 GMT

After moving the MAC to the Intel platform, Apple has really put some substance to the marketing slogan "5 down, 95 to go" referring to its percentage share of the computer business. In U.S.A Apple is now close to a 10% percent market share.

A year ago Apple shipped 6,4 % off all units sold the states. Numbers for Q2 shows that this number now is 8,5 %, an increase of 38%.

In the rest of the world the market share is 3,3 %.

It will be really interesting to see how the OS battle on the desktop will evolve. At least there is no longer just a Windows/Linux battle, you have to put some Apples in the basket as well.

Keep it simple

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:27 GMT

I have been using a small utility for a couple of months now. It does only one thing, but it does it great and it put credit to the 'Keep it simple' phrase.

Fawlty Offices...

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:12:52 GMT

It has been so long since I last wrote a blog article that I nearly did not find Live Writer. The reasons for this are many, but mostly because I had nothing to write about.

How IT should have been....

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:47:35 GMT

To help all people working in IT and Support to have an easier workday, the following instructions should be sent out to all the users in your organization.

Museum II

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:17:09 GMT

Back in the office after almost a week in Dortmund. As always it was a real pleasure visiting all the Swyxies again. They really make you feel like 'family'. A lot of work is put into future development of SwyxWare, but I am not going to look to the future, it is time to step back into the past.

What did you say....??

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:15:36 GMT

I am back in Dortmund with a couple of partners that are using these fine sunny days inside the Swyx Training room (I feel so sorry for them ;) )

Bob the Builder II

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:33:49 GMT

After yet another week, and with good help of Labour Day, I finished the terrace. For those who care, here is a photo of the result.

I am ready for the summer now...

The World Wide Web turns 15

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:42:20 GMT

The World Wide Web has many birthdays. But perhaps the most important Web anniversary of all is 30 April 1993.

Up, up, upload and away...

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:34:20 GMT

Sometimes you just stumble over a piece of software that just makes a little task much easier.

Bob the Builder

morten@rokosz.no — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:32:28 GMT

The last week I have been up to something completely non-technical. The summer is around the corner and the house needs a terrace.

New training concept from Swyx revealed due to internal leak

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:13:58 GMT

Newsflash: Swyx has secret plans for the new training sessions when SwyxWare 7.0 will be released by the end of this year. This video has been found on the desk of the Training Planning Manager (TPM) at Swyx. See you in Dortmund in the end of the year.

I have debt, therefor I have money

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:00:51 GMT

While the US economy is sliding into recession and the rest of the world is trying to figure out what is going on, this video explains a lot. BTW, this is not a joke.

Keep it together...

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:44:04 GMT

Yet another week is history. It is Friday and I want to share with you what I have been up to this week.

Breathles by Oxygene

morten@rokosz.no — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:38:39 GMT

It all boils down to your preferences, but Mozart performing on his own piano for classical music lovers or Ridley Scott lecturing about Blade Runner if you are crazy about sci-fi movies, would be moments to take your breath away. On Saturday 12th of April almost 1600 people had such a moment in Oslo.

I wish I could say that this is not me

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:28:28 GMT

But my wife would probably say that it would have made me a liar. Anyway, you judge if this is a progress or not.

Have a nice weekend everyone, and easy on the fastfood.

That is so SIP

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:55:17 GMT

If you are a frequent reader of the forum, you have noticed that from time to time there will be posts about SIP Trunking. We often then ask the poster if the provider is tested by Swyx. This is not just something we say because we can't help...