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<\/a><\/p>\nI got myself stuck in looking at the last 10 years of tech news in Austin<\/a> – the kind of thing you end up doing as we come up on 2010. Google News is fantastic for this with their Archive. Most of the content requires payment, so I don’t read it, but there are some nice finds, like the old Austin days links below. I like this Austin-y talk of personal extravagance in the dot.com days by Spike Gillespie from March 2001<\/a>:<\/p>\n \nFor me, extravagance equaled other things: Getting a Chango’s mahi mahi burrito whenever the hell I wanted one, handing out wads of cash to my strapped friends (“Here, keep it!”), overcompensating to my kid for all the years I had to say, “Sorry honey, we can’t, we’re broke.” Oh, and I bought toilet paper — my favorite name brand — in bulk.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yup, adding guacamole to everything on them fancy burritos is a special kind of Hill Country luxury ;><\/p>\nThe Links<\/h2>\n
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"Enterprise Quick Start SUSE Powered Virtual Appliance: for environments monitoring up to 100 devices, annual service charge of $59. This virtual appliance combines GroundWork Monitor Enterprise with a fully supported version of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 from Novell."<\/li>\n
"The impact severed Peterson's nose and separated Stoehr's shoulder. Christopher Thomas Thompson, the driver of the car and a former emergency room doctor, was arrested and put on trial. The jury found him guilty of six felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon: his car. Thompson now faces 10 years in prison."<\/li>\n
"Guardium makes technology for provides real-time monitoring of database activity, allowing companies to detect fraud, outside attacks and other illegal activities."<\/li>\n
"IBM took 31.7 percent of server revenue in the three months to Oct. 31, up a fraction from last year, while HP's share stayed more or less flat at 30.2 percent, Gartner said. They were followed at a distance by Dell, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu. Server revenue overall dropped 15.5 percent from the third quarter last year, to $10.7 billion. But it was up by 10.2 percent compared to the second quarter this year, Gartner said."<\/li>\n