Monthly Archives: November 2005
Bad news for Symantec and Mercury Interactive
My office is right by Mercury Interactive and the Veritas offices of Symantec. It was a bad day for the stocks of both companies: A 19.3 percent drop in Symantec’s shares took the Cupertino security-software maker off the list of the valley’s 10 most valuable tech stocks. Symantec stock fell $4.63 to $19.37 after the … Continue reading
EPO maker to back California Tour
EPO maker to back California Tour I’m thinking of a witty quip for this, but EPO has done a lot of good for patients who need to increase their red blood cell count. It appears Amgen is aware that EPO has been abused in endurance sports like cycling, and in some weird sort of way, … Continue reading
PMU reset to fix cranky iBook
Two times last night, my iBook just froze and I received this error message telling me to restart the computer. After some research, I found that resetting the PMU might solve my problems. I reset the PMU per the instructions on this page at Apple.com, and the computer seems to be much faster now. More … Continue reading