SimCity: "your city is experiencing brownouts, build another power plant"
The entire South of Market (SOMA) area of San Francisco is currently experiencing repeated power outages which began shortly before 2pm. This is the tech hub of SF, and a number of high-traffic websites are completely off the grid currently, including 365Main (a major colo), Craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, and SixApart (Movable Type, Typepad, LiveJournal, Vox, etc).
InfoWorld's building near South Park is currently down as well, but our website, hosted at Hosting.com, formerly Verio, on 3rd is still up and running as of 3pm.
Details on SFGate
Apparently 20,000+ in SF are currently without power. Glad I worked from home (San Mateo) today. =) Just hope the power comes back on before we have to start shutting down servers for heat reasons. And if you see InfoWorld drop off the 'net you'll know why....
Posted by Kevin Railsback on The resourcefulness of folks working on accessing the Unixy goodness of the iPhone is impressive. Working off of previous accomplishments, someone going by the name NerveGas has figured out a way of getting the SSH daemon working on the iPhone. This, combined with custom-compiled utilities, is really opening up the possibilities for customizing the iPhone going forward.
I'm a bit beyond my days of spending hours figuring out workarounds for restrictions, and I'll most likely continue to use my iPhone as-is. But it's heartening to see that the platform is being opened up for customization.
NerveGas' Howto is located here.
More details at TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/23/ssh-on-iphone
Posted by Kevin Railsback on Is Apple's iPhone worth the price? Eric Hill and I discuss how the iPhone fares as a multimedia device, a corporate e-mail client, a PDA, geek bling, and, oh yes, a phone.
Posted by Kevin Railsback on Is Apple's iPhone worth the price? Eric Hill and I discuss how the iPhone fares as a multimedia device, a corporate e-mail client, a PDA, geek bling, and, oh yes, a phone.
Posted by Kevin Railsback on | The newly released iPhoneDrive (OS X only) from Ecamm Network, allows you to use your iPhone's internal flash drive as file storage. While it doesn't make the iPhone show up in Finder like a normal USB drive would, it does provide a quick and easy way to take files with you on the go.
Up until now, the only way to do this with the iPhone was to email the files to yourself. That method didn't allow you to access the files from your Mac, so it was only useful for the limited number of file types that the iPhone can display natively. |  |
iPhoneDrive is $9.95, and a demo is also available.
Posted by Kevin Railsback on 
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