SheepShaver: Classic on Intel-Macs!
Experience the horror of Mac OS Classic.
Category Pointers
'The Damage in Lebanon, and Beyond'
"I never supported Hezbollah before," a young student at the American University of Beirut told me shortly after I arrived in the capital city. "But now they are defending us against Israel." His view of Hezbollah is quickly becoming the norm for hundreds of thousands of previously unsympathetic Lebanese as American-made Israeli bombs and missiles continue to rain down on the country.
Fair Use and EULAs
Interesting article on Ars about a recent decision of a U.S. Court on the subject.
WWDC'06: OSX Dtraced
XCode 3.0 seems nice! Graphical front-end to Dtrace included; Sun's dtrace is lauded as one of the most impressive dev/admin tools to appear in the last few years and Apple's adoption and integration into XCode is definitely well received. In related news, Apple published the intel kernel sources and introduced MacOSForge.org, a site for Mac OS X open source projects. Well done Apple!
Nevermind VisiCalc. Use Woz's VisiProg!
A Google video with Andy Hertzfeld on his early days at Apple. Long but very interesting esp. for software engineers.
Cloning Biometrics.
It's not just Big Brother you should be worried about. It's those that create the security features (and holes) of the digital era. Some problems of the up and coming ePassports. Biometric chip-containing passports started being issued on the 1st of August 2006 in Hellas.
¡Felicitaciones Amigos!
The Spanish region of Extramadura, follows along the steps of many other European authorities (Paris, München among others) and switches to Linux and Open Document formats, saving many millions of Euros, promoting freedom both economic and practical terms. Compare and contrast with the blissfully ignorant Hellenic authorities that keep spending taxpayers' money on overpriced, buggy Windows software.
Oh no! Disengage! Beam me away from this, Scotty.
Bad for Matt Damon. Bad for ST.
Powermac G5 Reliability Study
from Macintouch. Ouch, Apple, that hurts. 'Premium prices, low quality'? I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. For the moment that is...
Japanese dislike of PS3
'Cause sometimes the facts are not everything. It's {also, largely} the expectations. Things are looking increasingly bleak for PS3. Let's hope Sony manages to turn things around.