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Saturday, December 1, 2001
Buy Apple stock 
| | It's happening. The geeks are picking up on Apple iron (in most cases, Titanium), thanks both to sexy industrial design and a real Unix OS (X.x) that lets them hack away in command line mode. Against Microsoft, this is a much deeper secret weapon than open source, because it's FUD-proof. Here's what Goeff says about it. And here's Derrick Story talking about "the new Mac user" at O'Reilly's Mac Devcenter. More to the deeper point, here's what just showed up on Crackmonkey: |
| | "The New Mac User" is the OLD Mac user from back in the day. We're back to reclaim territory in our old homeland, and kick all these fucking hippies out into the cold gutter. Get the fuck out! |
| | Now it is time to cut the cord to Mac OS 9- and let these interlopers float back to Amegaland, and the lonely hell that they call computing. |
| | Geeks like this are computing's Northern Alliance, and Apple's Titania are their AK-47s. Or maybe Stinger missles. I don't know if Apple's hip to the potential here, but it might not even matter. |
How not to say uncle to your ants
| | These bad little dudes are Argentine ants, and they're essentially one big colony that runs form San Diego to north of San Francisco. Not to mention vast infestations in other parts of the world. We even fought a masive network of them at a hotel where we stayed in Majorca a few years back. They're taking over everywhere, more or less, but that's another story. As a practical matter, here's the deal: they have many queens and their nests are networked. There's no center, just lots of nodes and traffic routes between them. Kinda like the Internet, only yucky. So there's no way to kill them off. But you can keep them out. Here's how. |
| | - The ants follow a trail. Sometimes many trails. To get rid of them, you have to get rid of the trails. You do this with very hot soapy water and a sponge. The hot water kills them. In fact, this is the best direct insecticide you have. Also harmless. So, first thing: wipe them up.
- Once you've elimanted the trail, take fresh soapy water, and clean the trail up again. You want to leave zero ant scent.
- Recognize that the trail outside your house still exists. This is fine. What you want is for them to go about their business outside.
- Watch your perimeters. They'll probably come back up to several times along the same trails, especially if they still smell the scents of their late colleagues.
- They want sweets. If they've made it to your jellies and sugars, you'll need to clean those containers thorougly to get old ant smell off.
- If there are trails that run along the foundations outside your house, you can get some additional advantage by boiling some water in a large teapot and pouring the boiling water on the trail.
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| | Weather does make a difference. In rain they start to look inside for sweets. Fruits and flowers and aphids and other outdoor stuff like that are in short supply through winter. These buggers are cold blooded, too, so they like to head for the warmth of your abode. But it's still possible to keep them out. Cleanliness helps, in spite of what it says here. Trust me. |
| | Don't crush them, unless you're ready to clean up immediately. Smashing them releases even more ant smell and their comrades will come along in force. Interesting ant experiment: crush one with your finger and draw a line near an existing trail with the crushed ant. The others will follow the line you've drawn, even though you can't see it. |
Autoplugola
| | I began writing a newsletter in October for Linux Journal. It's called SuitWatch, which is a play on the title of my monthly Linux For Suits column (which is current through last June at this site here). Well, today my wife discovered where the archives live on the Linux Journal site. I guess I shoulda known, but I didn't. It's a new site and (insert other lame excuses here). |
| | Anyway, there have been five so far. Here they are: |
| | All of these are archived from the plain ASCII text email version that goes out, although the last several were also written in HTML. I think we should have the original HTML versions up soon. |
| | The SuitWatch index page is here, where you can also subscribe. |
Radiotion therapy
| | Ev says he likes spotted.radio, and adds "I would listen to a lot more Internet radio if it sounded better." |
| | So here, for your listening pleasure, are a bunch stations streaming 128+Kbps MP3: |
| | I could make the list longer, but I gotta go to bed. Enjoy. |
And what would the squad car look like?
Another one bites the worm
| | Says here Andrew Sullivan upgraded ot Mac OS X rather than Windows XP. I knew that, and I didn't think it was huge news. But I'm posting it to taking advantage of another chance to shit on the trouble I have linking to news on Andrew's site. He uses Blogger, so that little date/time stamp at the bottom of each of his entries should make my cursor turn into a hand. But it doesn't. |
| | Can somebody either explain to me what I'm doing wrong here (and hey, it might be my fault), or pleaswe tell Andrew how to turn that permalink feature (or whatever it's called) on? Thanks. |
Buzz on
| | After much encouragement (finally verging on badgering), Buzz (of Activewords), who is one of my most generous and useful sources of links & other good stuff, has a blog. And he's been hanging with Tom too, today's entry says. |
Cox@Rest?
| | Can somebody point us to the real economics of Net deployment and distribution? I'm curious about that. |
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