Here is a Problem that I have had for a long time. Wanna see if anyone out there has a solution for it. If it sounds complicated, it’s because it is. Here we go in Point Format:

· Platform: PC

· OS: Windows 7

· Network 1: Gigabit NIC connected to a Router that is connected to A Cable Modem

· Network 2: Gigabit NIC connected to a Router that is connected to A ADSL Modem

OK, now, I would like to be able to ‘BIND’ different Applications to Different NICs. Example I would like to watch a live stream using my NIC 2 via DSL and I would like Surf using Nic 1 via Cable modem.

I can do this very easily under OS X on my Macs. I just assign Apps to diff connections. I would like to know if anyone has solved this problem. So to shorten the Question: How can you connect or bind different applications to different NICs in your machine so they can use different internet connections? Thanx!

This is a simple question with very complex answers. Technically, before Microsoft ever existed, Bill Gates worked for Apple, on a contract and not as an Apple employee, to develop a floating point basic, since Woz refused to do it. Before Windows ever exited, Microsoft build Word for Macintosh and it does to this date. When Apple was in big trouble, Bill Gates stepped in and invested $125M in Apple. Not that this was a huge money that saved Apple, but it was a show of confidence that Apple will rebound. More important than the relatively small investment was the promise that Microsoft will keep developing Office for Mac for at least 5 more years which in turn signalled that Apple will be around for the long term and the fact that Microsoft believed in their abilities as a company. Between the two of these giants, they have over 2000+ licensing agreements that Apple and Microsoft use routinely and never tell the rest of us what they are. Microsoft has been pushed and challenged by Apple, directly or indirectly to innovate and visa-versa. If there was no OS X in the beginning of the millennium, would Microsoft be pushed to rewrite Windows from ground up and come with a brand new Windows in form of Vista? Would Microsoft go back to the drawing board and really optimize and improve Vista and release Windows 7 that everyone raves about today without the pressure of Apple optimizing and selling Leopard in form of Snow Leopard? Would Microsoft create a product like Zune if it wasn’t because of direct competition with Apple iPod? As I said, the relationship between these two companies are extremely complex and prosperous for both parties. So will they ever come together? Well, the answer to that was is pretty simple: they simply can not afford to openly come together and become one. They need to continue to be competitors and the direct winner of this competition isn’t one of them! They winners will be us – the users of their products.

No one have promised us that life is fair – having said that, allow me to ask this question: “why do we all go out of our way and try our best to be unfair to Apple Computer inc. and hold them to impossibly different standards and when they don’t live up to it, then we hold them to ridicule?  We would never of think of doing this to any other company, except Apple in this industry.  Case and point:  iPhone 4.  This is a brand new version of Apple’s iPhone and not an ‘update’.  Most of the hardware has been changed (as drastic and a brand new Processor and as minuet shape changes in the outer box.  The Software is also drastically changed as well.  Apple has introduced their new mobile OS, the iOS 4.  So as we can see the software is also brand new and consequently needing updates as well.   Can we all try to comprehend that even though this product carries the name of the iPhone, but it has gone trough major revision.  An instrument this small with so much packed inside (hardware & software) bound to have bugs.  Especially if you’re acting as a pioneer and buying it the first day of it’s release.  It bounds to have bugs, hardware or software which the company has to update through updates and upgrades over time.

So let’s understand this rule and apply it to all companies out there equally, which Apple is one of them.  Let’s also try to have a an equal and balanced approach to all the manufacturers’ out there and while we are all at it, may be we can give them some time to fix their problems.  Can we?

We all heard about the 99 year old lady, Victoria Campbell, who started using an iPad as her first computer ever. To me that was one of the greatest Technology news in the last few months. A nearly 100 year old woman starts using a computer for the first time. Isn’t that amazing? It feels my heart with joy to see that technology has penetrated the human society so deeply that its fruits are no longer only for the engineers and technologists, but it belongs to everyone, regardless of the Age – Sex – Color or Creed. By the way, who or what is a technologist? That is a question for me as well. I have concluded they came up with this term for the people that have no formal training in ‘technology’ but they know a ‘little’ about it and needed to justify their dabbling in the trade with a title. The term ‘Technological Wannabe’ might define the meaning of a so called ‘Technologist’ in a clearer manner.

Cory Doctorow, a self appointed champion of open systems (probably a ‘technologist’, hint hint) who is a nouveau Apple hater went all the way across the continent to Lake Oswego, Ore., to verbally abuse the 99 year old iPad user for being part of the problem of closed and DRM-ridden systems. Knowing that MS Campbell never used a computer and consequently have no idea about open or closed system, how could this maniac accuse and abuse her? Is Cory Dumb – Dumber or Dumbest?

Cory Doctorow, the ‘technologist’, goes on to say:

“Apparently Ms. Campbell is happy inside Apple’s walled garden,” Doctorow said after being ejected from the Mary’s Woods Retirement Community for haranguing the nonagenarian for a full 45 minutes on the moral imperative of open systems, digital rights and steampunk subculture.

Can you believe this? Has this person gone completely off the deep end? How can you abuse an elderly, 99 years of age, for a full 45 minutes for something that she has no idea of? I’d say that charges should be brought up against Doctorow and he should spend a few months in the slammer playing the little ‘lady’ to one of the king pins in the joint, so he may learn his place and keep the respect of his elders, regardless of what type of computer system they use; Open or Closed. Is Cory Dumb – Dumber or Dumbest?

In another part of his diatribe, Cory Doctorow points out that:

“I hope she’s happy in the infantile world of apps only approved by Apple’s jack-booted thugs,” the author of Little Brother said. “I hope she’s happy being forced into being a content consumer instead of a content creator. And when I say ‘I hope she’s happy’ I’m being sarcastic because people like Campbell really are the worst people in the world. And that includes pedophiles.”

Can you believe this? If you take this quote and give it to MS Campbell, she, probably, would be hard pressed to make heads or tails out of it! What does this maniac expect from MS Campbell? To become a ‘Content Creator’ at her age, with no background in the field and hardly able to see the screen of an iPad? Comparing a 99 year old lady living in a retirement home to pedophiles and then concluding she is worse than them? This is outrageous! Doctorow should be sued on behalf of MS Campbell for slander and defamation of character, and not just him, but also that rag-tag site that he writes for. Is Cory Dumb – Dumber or Dumbest?

I guess the dumbest thing that he could come up with was in this part of his diatribe:

“I explained to her how easy it is to compile and install Debian on a steampunk casemod of a tablet built by a Japanese company I know of that’s run entirely bybloody nurse cosplayers. You have to reset some jumpers and the sound card isn’t compatible yet, but you can run GIMP on it. Try that on an iPad.

After reading this can you still declare Doctorow sane? A 99 year old woman who has never used a computer in her life ordering a ‘Steampunk Casemod’ pad from an unnamed Japanese company – modifying ‘Jumper Settings” on the device – installing DEBIAN Linux Distro on it and after all that sound card won’t work? How stupid can he get? A lot of ‘Technologist” like him can’t do that – let alone MS Campbell. Is Cory Dumb – Dumber or Dumbest?

You might conclude that Doctorow could be THE Dumbest ‘technologist’ that you ever heard of. But I have a sinking feeling that the stunt had a darker and more disgusting reason behind it. Doctorow might have performed this stunt purely for getting attention and get his name back in the tech news and hope for glory days to come. Getting publicity, even bad one which I’m told to be better than none, at the expense of 99 year old woman using a computer for the first time? In response, I say: Shame – Shame on you Mr. Doctorow…