Special Treat: Steve Jobs NeXT Mail Welcome Message and Picture

Published by Eric Litman on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 7:37pm

I reached out to my friends on the ex-NeXT mailing list today to dig up an old gem: the default Steve Jobs welcome message in every NeXTstep users' mailbox. This was a favorite play during customer demos and is so emblazoned into my permanent memory that I (sadly) can still to this day recite it: Hi, this is Steve Jobs, and I want to welcome you to the NeXT world. We think you're gonna love this computer. It's got the most advanced applications of any computer shipping today, AANNNDDD, it's the first computer designed from scratch to be an interpersonal computer, to extend personal computing into the realm of improving group productivity and collaboration, which we think is going to be ...

Twitter stats for @ericlitman, 2007

Published by Eric Litman on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 4:51am

I started using Twitter at the end of April 2007 and find it to be more useful to me every day. See Dan York's great post on getting value from Twitter if you haven't yet figured out how Twitter can work for you. Always on the lookout for analytics to describe behavior, I ran across a perl script by Damon Cortesi tonight that pulled in my Twitter feed and generated some pretty graphs. The results - my Twitter statistics from April 2007 through today - are below. Thanks to @dacort on Twitter for the script that generated ...

Resolving Poor Mac OS X Samba Performance with D-Link’s DNS-323 NAS

Published by Eric Litman on Monday, October 8th, 2007 3:02pm

A few months ago I bought a couple of D-Link's DNS-323 low-end network attached storage devices as part of my ongoing mission to reduce and simplify the hardware in my home. For about $375 ($175 for the DNS-323 and $100 each for two 500GB hard disks) and almost no setup effort†, you can have 1/2 TB of redundant storage in a small, quiet, Gigabit Ethernet-capable server with some pretty nifty features out of the box. And if you're a tinkerer with some Linux experience, you can draw from the thriving hacking community supporting it. For the money, I love these little things. But while my Windows machines communicate with them ...