Axodys

I put in my preorder for MacOS X yesterday (with the special $30 discount of course), although I haven’t been using the beta in a while. One of the little things that I really need (and hope the final version will provide) is the Location Manager. It makes networking at home and work a real snap.

O’Reilly’s new Safari service is a good idea. I think it has the potential to be fairly successful and being able to access five books over the web for $10 a month seems like a decent price point. From O’Reilly’s perspective the revenue generation potential looks to be pretty good as well considering there’s an initial set up cost, but no appreciable cost per book offered as there are with printed copies. Personally, I like owning actual books, but this is certainly worth looking at.

At long last Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has arrived in Spokane. I’m planning on watching it tonight of course.

Matt Haughey offers his side of the Pyra story.

Sad news about Pyra from Ev.

I made a powerful discovery about Linux this morning that’s especially funny in light of what I said about my LinuxPPC server uptime earlier this week. Specifically, you can run any task in the background that you like simply by placing an & after the command. This is very useful if you’re launching something like Zope for instance and would like to be able to move onto other tasks. Poor newbie that I was, I had always launched Zope as a foreground task and had to login remotely to accomplish anything else on the server. I actually recall thinking that there had to be a better way when I first started playing with Zope, but it was working so I left it. At any rate I figured it out eventually and that’s fairly satisfying in itself.