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| Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
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Also The Wrong, The Bad and The Ugly 
Thigh-fi
| | Typing this on my legs while squatting against a wall in the Wi-Fi Allilance booth, where I count up to ten differnet signals. For awhile there I thought none of them were worthy of a warchalk (a practice which is regretably absent here); but I just got on the net over one called wirelessb. |
| | What's surprising to me here is the complete absence of any sense (ironic or otherwise) that wifi took off thanks to a groundswell of largely unauthorized deployment and adoption, rather than because vendors pushed it (not that pushage wasn't happening; but rather that it was by itself a highly insufficient condition). |
Something from nothing
Just one question
How unlucky for them
What happens when you give customers ways to stop being consumers
| | Someone needs to develop a small application that would do for OS X what Conflict Catcher did for OS 9: a "system merge" that lets you merge the stuff the Jaguar installer misses. If you occasionally log in as the "root" user, the installer misses almost all the root preferences. It also misses any sendmail, httpd.conf, or crontab changes, and doesn¹t copy the web server folders or any custom installations of PHP. And the tricky part is that a lot of those settings and files are in directories that are invisible to the Finder, and you have to use the Unix Terminal to modify or mhttp://www.limmy.com/playthings/xylophone/ove them... |
Bet on the bird
Paneling
| | From left to right, Aaron Swartz, me, Doug Barcon and Mary Wehmeier. Mary and Doug were up to Comdex from L.A. today, and on hand for the panel that featured Aaron and me. When he was introducing us, Gary Beach, the moderator, said he believed Aaron beat Bill Gates' record as the youngest speaker in Comdex history. Bill was 17, and Aaron has that beat by a year. |
| | We took that pic at an after-hours press gathering, with an inexpensive camera a company was showing off. |
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