Laura and I were at our local Apple dealer - Bitznbytes in Concord - at 6 PM last night to pick up a copy of Tiger. Fortunately, there was no long line of loonies dressed as strange characters - no wait at all, in fact - walked in and picked up our copy, chatted with [...]
Barring a successful injunction from Tiger Software — interesting that they waited until Ship Day Eve to sue! - Tiger, Mac OS X version 10.4 goes on sale officially today. The news sites are filled with interesting insights:
Pitting Tiger Server vs. Windows Server. After a week of non-stop Longhorn news, it’s time for Apple Computer [...]
Slashdot notes Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. druid_getafix writes “The first mass market reviews of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger are trickling in with a big thumbs up for the release. Walt Mossberg of the WSJ says ‘Tiger Leaps Out in Front’ but complains about slowness of some applications - notably Mail. [...]
InfoWorld: Top News reports WINHEC - Microsoft slams XP in call for Longhorn support. “SEATTLE - Microsoftæon Tuesday badmouthed its own work on networking and hardware support in Windows XP in order to sell hardware makers on new technologies it has planned for Longhorn, the next version of Windows due late next year.”
Later in the [...]
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, recurs the first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Technical Institute campus starting at 7 PM.
Directions and maps are available on the NHTI site at http://www.nhti.edu. This month, we’ll be meeting in the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, [...]
OSNews points to Of Course Macs Are More Expensive… Aren’t They?. “So, I went out to at least partially test this theory, and to do appropriate comparisons between Dell computers and Apple computers. I’m hardly the first one to take this challenge but I’ve decided it’s time to stop talking and taking other peoples’ word [...]
A strange article at InfoWorld: Top News titled Microsoft: Let the 64-bit era begin. Microsoft was one of the companies that started the Windows 64-bit era with Windows NT running on the PowerPC, MIPS, and Alpha chips in the early 90s. DEC produced the Alpha chip and went on to port UNIX to the chip [...]
Scripting News asks You think?. Steve Gillmor: “I’m really suffering from Post Gillmor Gang Disorder.” Dave Winer responds: “Tell me something I didn’t know. “;->”Note to universe. Please get Steve and his pals back on the air. I’m suffering.”
Same here. These guys are good. The final session, with Dan Bricklin, was tops. Hope they get [...]
Andrew MacNeill asks Isn’t Source Control part of programming 101 yet?
Source code control, change management, modeling, testing and project planning are skills that distinguish professional programmers from “coders.” When the PC revolution displaced the entrenched bureaucracy of the mainframe and mini computer of the “Data Processing Department,” there were lots of babies thrown out [...]
Scripting News points to David Weinberger’s post on doing 90-second blurbs on “the blogosphere” for MSNBC: David Weinberger: “I quit.”
and “I’m in the blogosphere to escape from this degradation of values.”
Excellent and insightful post. If the topics of blogs vs. mainstream media (the insiders are abbreviating it MSM in some of the posts), follow [...]
