Posts by Ed Burnette

Oracle dumping HPC: Genius or foolhardy?

HPC is the future

Today's "high performance" is tomorrow's mainstream. Dropping out of HPC won't hurt immediately but they'll miss out on long term innovation.

China hits back at Google's uncensored Hong Kong servers

Is the quote on Android accurate?

I can't find the quote about holding back Android apps from operators in China on any official Google blog or web site. Can you verify that and provide the source?

Google fixes world's most stupid bug

More info on the problem

If you typed reboot in the middle of a sentence, like this one, it wouldn't reboot. That's because the first word is "If", so it would try to run the "If" command, which isn't found.

Android only ships with a few Linux commands built-in, which explains why nobody noticed for a couple of weeks after the G1 came out. For example if you typed "make love not war" at the beginning of a line nothing untoward would happen because the make command was not shipped in the image.

The problem didn't occur on the emulator that everyone had been running for a year before the T-Mobile G1 came out. I'm not sure exactly why, but that's another reason it took a while to discover.

The fix should be pushed out to all handsets by now. I provide instructions to figure out if you have the fix in my blog (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=680).