Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
so i got past the first phase, ascertaining that although it should work, it does not: … mouseOut.pageItems[i].pathPoints[j].anchor[0] -= 180; … Consequently, my elegant solution was axed in favor of a much clunkier (though functional) one … but before I could even get that far … it also became necessary to realize that the object […]
Nod to -m on this one: Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems The hook that got me to the end of the article: At the same time, the BSD community had never gotten along well with the FSF because of free software religious wars over GPL vs. BSD licensing issues. And the epiphany: For […]
(via Moock) You can now author Flash MX content on/for Linux. Roxxors my boxxors.
Via a Wired article: To cut a long story short, the tedious backup procedure was cavalierly dispensed with after Panther was successfully installed on two other machines earlier in the afternoon: a 1-GHz eMac and a 1.6-GHz PowerMac G5. In both cases, the machines were first backed up to one of OWC’s excellent external FireWire […]
I want to be involved in a serious programming project. Bottom line. I want to be in on CVS somewhere and make meaningful contributions. Though that’s less important than the satisfaction of successfully brining a complex series of slightly-recursive nested for loops to some successful return. I want my ifs and thens in my mind […]
An article on Panther… Written by David Pogue (who else?) for the NYTimes… My 2 favorite lines: FileVault uses an encoding scheme so thorough, Apple says, that a password-guessing computer would need 149 trillion years to break it. Just enough time for Apple to reach Mac OS X 11. …and… And Exposé is probably worth […]
From Ape Infinitum, re: iTunes Music Store: It’s all about recapturing second market revenue. *shrug*makes-face* Though I definitely fall in line w/ statements like: I wish I knew how to feel about iTunes. And/or “…people want to do the right thing [and go along with] good services at fair prices…” First off, $0.99 per song […]
You get something… And three months later, they release a new and much improved version. G4 processors up to 1GHz, slot-loading combo drive, Panther pre-loaded, 802.11g ready…
A quick note to those w/ the horizontal scrolling problem: Sorry ’bout that. Safari was handling the adjust template just fine but… Well, let’s just say that this layout lends itself to all sorts of weird isms. Anyway, in trying to keep the images from polluting across posts, I tried to wrap up posts within […]
Here’s one you may have missed… This SCO vs. Linux thing keeps getting deeper. Maybe not as thick, but puts an interesting texture in this pudding: The MontaVista-Lineo case has some similarities to the much higher-profile legal battle between IBM and SCO Group, such as the GPL involvement. But one major difference is that both […]