Matt Croydon::Postneo

Year: 2004

  • Macworld Warmup

    It’s that time again.  The infamous “mini-iPod” is the rumor de jour.  I would really like to see something like an affordable $99-$199 2-4 gig mini-iPod, but would not be suprised if this rumor goes either way.  Of course standard rumors also apply: updated G5 desktops, and iLife update, maybe a rev to one of the notebook lines (though we’re probably some time away from a G5 lappy).  Then in the left wings we also have the standard far-out rumors like the second coming of Newton and something like an iTablet.

    Here’s a quick selection of news sites that will be covering the event.  You can also watch for yourself via the Quicktime feed:

    • Mac News Network will have a dedicated page listing updates as they happen.
    • Mac OS Rumors is speculating as usual.
    • Mac Central has a list of product announcements and such.
    • Think Secret seems to be speculating a little less than usual this time around.
    • Macintouch is gearing up for coverage.
    • MacMinute plans to have live coverage of they keynote.
    • I’m sure that Macsurfer will be covering the event, but there are just so many links on the page.

  • openMosix Summit 2004

    Newsforge:

    Brussels (January 5, 2004) – The openMosix Summit for 2004 will take place within the FOSDEM conference. FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting is an event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software.

    openMosix is probably the coolest clustering technology that I’ve seen in recent years.  I’m glad to hear that there is still interest and development in the project.  I was able to set up an openMosix test environment in under an hour or so at home, using older commodity hardware and my local network.

    Hopefully someone will attend the openMosix Summit and report back so that us common folk can hear about it.

  • Martian Links

    I’ve been following the news from Mars this morning.  Everything looks good, but the rover won’t be heading out for another 7-9 days.  You’ve got to power up and check out the skateboard, after all.  Here are the links that I have been using to keep myself informed:

    The MER is sceduled to wheel around mars for 90 days, but scientists hope that the rover will last longer than that.  Sojurner was designed to last 30 days and lasted around 90 IIRC.  Another rover will be attempting bounce-down in less than a month in a different location.  Hopefully we can decrease the near 2/3 failure rate of Martian probes.

  • A Successful Six Minutes

    Wow.  It looks like NASA’s latest rover managed to touch down after a Rube Goldberg-like landing sequence.  There was a lot that could go wrong in those crazy six minutes.  I’m glad everything went as planned.

    It’s going to be several days of diagnostics and power-ups.  Release the skateboard!

  • Blojsom 2.07

    I must have blinked, because a new blojsom release is out.

  • Roundup: Clearing the Buffer

    Yep, windows and tabs have been accumulating again.  It’s time to clear them out:

    • UMLet 2 ” is an open-source lightweight Java tool for rapidly drawing UML diagrams, with a focus on a sound and pop-up-free user interface.”
    • Edd has quite a conference lineup this year.
    • The 8bitpeoples have some awesome retro-fun mp3 albums, including some excellent Christmas interpretations.
    • It looks like Groovy is filling out quite nicely.
    • I need to set up an account on Mobile RSS so I can keep track of things on the go.
    • PDAPortal.us currently lists 463 PDA-friendly sites.  It looks like Opera on a mobile phone would rock with some of these sites.
    • Russ lists the apps on his 6600 that he uses all the time.  I need to compile a similar list for my 9290, retro as it is.
    • Best. Panoramic of Times Square. Evar!
    • OPL Wiki: Dialogs.  They’re currently in the 1.0 release for Nokia Communicators, and should be arriving on S60 in the next few months.  I can’t wait.
    • As pointed out on #mobitopia, WiGLE.net is a place to dump and search your raw wi-fi stumbling data.
    • Todays Get Fuzzy is funny… and not.  So true.  Right now I’m getting double doses of Get Fuzzy every morning… one in my aggregator and another on the ‘Scratch a Day’ desk calendar.

    *Whew*  The buffer has been cleared and culled.  I hope that everyone is doing well in the new year.

  • Wi-Fi Free Spot

    Wi-Fi Free Spot is a listing of commercial but free (as in beer) Wi-Fi hotspots.  See also the Wi-Fi Free Spot Weblog.  They seem to have the obvious things listed in my area.  YMMV, of course.

  • Happy New Year!

    Yep, it’s a few hours belated in GMT-5, but happy new year to all!