Matt Croydon::Postneo

Month: July 2002

  • Also in bad linux news, Transmeta cuts 200 jobs.

  • Rumor: Turbolinux bites the dust.  Turbolinux is one of the four major backers of United Linux. We’ll have to see if this is true or not.

  • Earthweb says: Audit your lan with nmap.  I agree.

  • I like the new iPod.

  • Apparently, some company owns patents on JPEG.  This could be bad.

  • Ever wanted to play Halo, GT3, Tony Hawk, or Project Gotham on an IMAX screen?

    You can if you’re good enough.  [crossposted from my livejournal]

  • Windows .Net Server RC1 is almost ready to ship.

  • Slashdot wraps up H2K2.

  • Don’t get me wrong, I feel the love for Apple.

  • $129 for an incremental upgrade is steep, regardless of how cool it is.

  • From Steve’s MWNY keynote [via MacNN]:

    “Jobs references OS X adoption rate issues raised by Macs. 2.5 million current Mac users. 77% of Mac users keep OS X as default . That means that 5 million OS X users by end of month. That means that 20% of Mac installed base will be using OS X in less 24 months.”

    What this means, in real terms, is that very vew people are actually using OSX.  It’s pretty sad, considering the features and stability.  Many of the mac users I know don’t use OSX yet.  Many were waiting for Photoshop for OSX, now they’ve decided to wait for something else.

    Now I understand why so many developers are upset at the install-base of OSX.  It’s pitiful.  The sad part is that the majority of mac machines out there are just not physically capable of running OSX.  I have an 8500 at home hopped up to a G4-400, and Apple says it can’t run OSX.  I know otherwise, but still.  An 8500 isn’t all that ancient comapred to some machines installed in schools, homes, and offices.

    Hurry up and wait.


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  • Time to give Quicktime6 a try?

  • Hack stuff, get life in jail.  Suck.

  • Blogrolls rule.  I’m still getting the hang of things though.

  • From Metafilter (http://happy.3rd.birthday.for.metafilter.com/):

    MetaFilter is dead…

    tired. The old server, that is.

    The computer that handles all the sites that reside here is down today for a couple days while I migrate to the new server.

    quick update: through a series of snafus, drive errors, and reboots, it will take a bit longer to get things back online. MetaFilter might not be back tonight (Sunday), but everything (including the other sites) should be around by sometime tomorrow.

    a later update: So it hasn’t quite been the birthday that was intended for the site. Sort of like that time your folks took you to the amusement park for your birthday, and you had that huge lunch, but then that spinning ride made you sick and everyone ended up with little bits of your puke in their hair?

    It’s kind of like that.

  • I am addicted to information

  • Tetris turns 17! The complicated history of the Russian phenomenon is an interesting read.

  • What’s wrong with Linux today? Adam Wiggins has the answer.

    The Motley Fool: “Comparing Apple to Dell or Gateway, you’ll find that Apple has a vastly superior edge in intellectual property.”

  • I’d like a 1u quad Athlon MP 2100+ with fries please. From a c|net article published today:

    As an AMD Athlon(TM) MP 2100+ processor launch partner, Angstrom Microsystems is announcing the Quad2100, the world’s first quad AMD Athlon(TM) MP processor 2100+ 1U rackserver.