Phasor Burn

Sun tries to give the appearance of being both a hardware company and a software company. That is a lie, however, since Sun is giving a lot of it’s software away for free (as in beer) now. That’s ok I suppose, if it’s used to drive hardware sales.

In other words, they are primarily a hardware company. Similar to Apple in that respect. Except Apple is rising in (desktop) market share, and Sun is declining (server market share).

Despite many years of trying to make inroads on the corporate desktop with thin clients and the misleadingly named “java desktop”, Sun really is all about servers. Servers mainly in heavy lifting roles (database) or internet facing (web server).

After the dotcom bubble 1.0 burst, there was such a glut of their hardware available on Ebay, as investors tried to get some pennies-on-the-dollar out of all those failed online petfood and similar ventures. Couple this with the rise of Linux plus the heavy backing of Linux by IBM, and Sun was hurting for hardware sales for many years. I don’t think they ever have recovered to anywhere near the pre-bubble sales even.

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Hey pal, your poetry reading isn’t so hot either . . . but boy did the vp get his shorts in a knot over nothing other than the obvious :

snotty customers get put on hold more often than nicer customers.

Made even funnier by the old gruntly american customer and polite canuck that says “eh” stereotypes.

I haven’t been making beer on a regular basis for maybe 10 years now. Last January I got back into it with a friend but after getting all of the gear bought and one batch made we just didn’t seem to find time until now, a year later, to do a second batch each.

This time around I am trying something a bit more involved. I wanted to do something with honey as a component, and found a few recipies. I’m basing my Hoppy Bee Brew on the Beer Cabinet Bee Brew recipie on that page.

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Someone went through a lot of trouble to very accurately depict the Simpsons intro with real life actors.