Random notes

• I knew I didn't like Vaio's very much, but I had no idea they were so awful — to the point of requiring hacking on your goddamn BIOS to enable VMX.

• The flash demo for Dell's ML6000 tape library boasts that it's "completely self-aware". Not sure I want SkyNet running my backups…

• O'Reilly has an upcoming webcast on -- deep breath -- "Advanced Twitter for Business". (At least they didn't call it a webinar. When I told my wife about this, she said "So...you and O'Reilly break up yet?"

• Obviously not, because I've just ordered Backup and Recovery and Linux Clusters with Oscar, Rocks, OpenMosix and MPI. I had purchased B&R at my last job, but this is for me.

• And did I mention the dream I had a while back about a Sun laptop that looked like an X4200 server folded in half? In the dream it ran nearly perfectly, except when you tried to go to a web page with flash; then it would crash, and a movie of Matt Stone would play, apologizing on behalf of Jonathan Schwartz and everyone else at Sun.

• I'm playing with the CVS version of Emacs after reading about some of the new features in what will become Emacs 23. It's nice, but the daemon mode isn't quite multi-tty — you can run Emacs server, detached from any TTY, but if you try connecting to it with multiple emacsclient instances, the first one is where all the TTY action goes. Not sure what I'm missing.