To avoid publicity and possible rival bids, Apple in some cases has offered a target only a three-hour period in which to accept the terms of a sale, according to one executive with knowledge of the situation.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Also telling:
Counting long-term investments that the company can "liquidate in a day," Apple had $41.7 billion in cash at the end of the last quarter, Broadpoint’s Marshall said. In comparison, Google had about $26.5 billion, he said.
I doubt Apple will be letting Google walk away with one of their acquisition targets so easily in the future.
via Bloomberg.
Shortly after the iPad announced that it only took Micro-SIMs I commented it looks like you trim down a normal SIM with scissors, and have it fit into a Micro-SIM slot.
Looks like I was right, and TechRadar has a how-to guide for the SIM to Micro-SIM conversion. BGR has a few images of AT&T's new combo-SIMs, and although the AT&T Micro-SIM is a one-way street, MicroSim Shop sells a Micro-SIM (Mini-UICC) to SIM adapter for €5.99.
AT&T SIM/Micro-SIM Combo Card
MicroSim Shop also has a guide for cutting a SIM down to size, and some shots of the final product being used in one of their adapters.
Micro-SIM Adapter and DIY Micro-SIM
I came back to my hotel room at the Marriott last night, and the voicemail light on the phone was blinking. No surprise, I typically don't have my room made up, and housekeeping will call and leave a message to make sure I don't need clean towels, since it's normal to use 10 towels a day.
I hit the big red flashing button, and was told I didn't have any voicemail messages. I did on the other hand, have a text message. Press zero to hear your text messages.
I obligingly hit zero (anything to turn off that light), and I'm transferred to someone at the front desk who proceeds to read me a note from housekeeping, about towels – and shampoo. I get hints.
Note to Marriott – it's less of a text message and more of a live action voicemail.
I've had an issue on a server for a little while now where Apache works fine, but apachectl configtest throws a warning.
# apachectl configtest
httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for foo.example.com+
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
Everything worked, so I never dug too deep, but each time I saw the message I got a little more annoyed. I thought there might be a hidden character in my httpd.conf file, but the actual issue wasn't related to Apache at all – it was the machine's hostname. I never noticed it because with a machine named foo.example.com I'd only see username@foo at a stock bash command prompt.
Running hostname showed that the the hostname had a trailing +
# hostname
foo.example.com+
It was easily fixed by running:
# hostname foo.example.com
