MacWeek has an informative article on upcoming RAM technologies. It’s disappointing, but not surprising, to see various companies like Apple (firewire) and Intel (Rambus) pushing the proprietary technology standards that require licensing fees. Of course interestingly enough in the case of both those examples the same two companies are developing competing technologies which is a good thing.
Here’s Cringely’s solution to the Microsoft monopoly.
If you want to see when the latest and greatest weblogs have been updated check out the weblogMonitor over at Userland Software. Hurry up and release Manila already Dave!
It’s always important to get your daily dose of weird news.
Last Sunday during a visit to a local Barnes & Noble I picked up an introductory book on Latin called Learn Latin: A Lively Introduction to Reading the Language. It’s an interesting book so far. Coming from the perspective of three years of high school Spanish it’s cool to see an example of how language evolves over time.
Oddly enough it just occurred to me start looking for links to Latin resources on the Internet. It looks like there’s quite a bit of stuff out there actually. About.com seems to have a site specifically dealing with the Latin language that’s a good starting point.
The PowerCenter is alive! I’m pleased to report that my new ram and processor upgrade have worked out quite well. I now have three G3 based Macs at my disposal! Wahoo!
Here’s a cool PHP oriented site I’m looking forward to perusing more when I get the chance.
I get tons of annoying mailings at work hawking motivational knicknacks, so coming across Despair, Inc. really made my day. [via the Cluetrain weblog]
Alright! FedEx tried to deliver my most recent web purchases. Soon it will be upgrade time for the old PowerCenter I’m planning on running as a dedicated LinuxPPC server.
Okay, what can I say? Joey Galloway came out after just a week of practice and delivered tonight against the Broncos. I’m still annoyed that he turned down a fair offer.
Hmm. This Washington Post article about possible remedies to the Microsoft antitrust situation brings up a good point that I hadn’t thought of. Namely, if you split Microsoft into two companies (OS and Applications), you just end up with two companies with monopolies rather than one.
Cringlie, of Triumph of the Nerds fame, is going to offer his solution next week.
The Indigo Girls concert was really good. The Butchies, an extremely energetic and entertaining indie band, opened. Of course the real fun began once Amy and Emily took the stage. Wow!
This concert was up there, but one of my all time favorite concerts was seeing Elvis Costello and the Attractions in the same venue (Mercer Arena), during Bumpbershoot of 96. He did multiple encores too!
Great, just what we need on top of Y2k.
Hey look! I’m not the only one having fun with the LinuxPPC installation process.
Actually in fairness to the LinuxPPC people I will say that having the ability to use the BootX ramdisk at startup rather than the old installer.coff diskette method is a huge improvement. Keep up the good work guys!
This week just flew by. Tomorrow after a half day of work I’m headed to Seattle for an Indigo Girls concert.
Hopefully Snoqualmie Pass won’t be too bad tomorrow afternoon. We’ve got our snow tires on…
On the linux scene I’ve managed to successfully load LinuxPPC on that old Mac clone I mentioned a few days ago thanks to some borrowed RAM. It’s looking like some of my problems were being cause by a defective DIMM. I’m going to have to pick up some more RAM and a G3 upgrade pretty soon here.
I started playing with Emacs today at work. I know it’s considered the text editor by a lot of people, but I haven’t touched it since my college days and I actually never used it to do anything back then. Better later than never.
Hey boys and girls! It’s the Home Gene Splicing Kit!
David K. Every has a new column on MacWeek discussing, “the i-Bench, a new benchmark for measuring Internet performance that PC Magazine recently deployed to prove that PCs are dramatically faster than Macs when tackling some Web-related tasks.”
I haven’t had a chance to check out the i-Bench myself, but I’m somewhat curious about it. I know that on the Mac Communicator is quite a bit quicker at rendering pages than Explorer. Of course Communicator on LinuxPPC blows both away.
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