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Friday, January 11, 2002
Cross-species OS progress 
| | If we got 75% of the way to my goal -- melding the Mac OS with Unix -- I'd say we're now 90% or 95% of the way there. OS X is not perfect. Nor is it free, either which I'd really love. But... Jobs & co. have brought us that much closer to my goal. I need to congratulate him on this. |
Networking a floating 55,000 metric ton Farraday cage
| | Here's more from Bernie Dunham on the challenges of wireless (or even ethernet) networking inside a giant cruise ship. It's really interesting. I had no idea how complicated it was to solve the "last ocean" problem. |
This is interesting
| | Found among the comments responding to a piece I wrote at Macworld (the last day of which is today): |
| | I would suggest strongly that hackers help finish the GNUstep project. GNUstep seems to be on the way to being source compatible with Apple's Cocoa APIs. If GNUstep were to become 100% compatible with Apple's Cocoa APIs, then software developers could simply compile their source for 2 different platfomrs. Just last night I downloaded GNUMail for GNUstep and compiled it BOTH under OS X AND GNUstep on Linux. |
| | I think both Gnome and KDE are cool, but I think the real work should be done on the GNUstep desktop environment. With a 100% Cocoa compatible desktop, Linux stands the best chance of having Apple apps ported to it. |
| | For that matter, port GNUstep to Darwin and you have a good chunk of OS X running on Intel architecture. |
Democracy at work
| | What's the first order of business when a new administration takes power? Right: reward friends. The second is to start undoing everything the prior administration was doing that might be unfriendly to the agendas of the new administration and its friends. |
| | So what was the Bush administration doing in Afgranistan for its friends in the oil business when everything went boom in September? Here's how CNN's Paula Zahn put that question to a stonewalling U.S. official. And here are a few more links to the book that got the Q ball rolling. |
| | The book is titled Bin Laden, la verite interdite, or Bin Laden: the hidden truth. |
| | Note that the last link is to a cached page that has since disappeared. The page is (or was) at Intelligence Online. Clicks to that site are now met by a polite "Une Erreur est survenue : Accès refusé." One of the book's authors is Guillaume Dasquie, editor in chief of the service. Hmm. |
| | Why was access yanked? I can guess, but I dunno. But if vous can parlez Francais, the first chapter au Francais is still available here, which is inside the Intelligence Online domain. For now. (Perhaps JY or some other French friends can help make sense of all this.) |
| | You can also buy the book from Amazon.fr. The few reviews there are mixed (which I can tell by counting stars, not by reading French). |
| | In any case, it's easy to remember how, after 9/11, countless official interviewees on news shows said the way to find the perpetrators of These Hateful Crimes was to "follow the money." |
| | The same applies to the perpetrators of politics. |
| | [Credits: I found a bunch of this stuff by following leads that began at Kumquat's Musings.] |
Congrats
| | And thanks to everybody who voted for everybody. |
| | Especially Dave, who gets my BOTM (millennium) award for making us all possible. |
Disinterblogulation
| | Buzz Bruggeman has been a reliable source of many things that have showed up in this weblog, often with credit to "Buzz of Activewords." After much insistence on my part that he start to blog, he had one going there for a little while, but it kinda got quiet over the holidays. Now he's back with a whole new one. Dig it. |
Rooftop computing
| | Sitting out on the roof under the dome of stars and a down blanket, playing with Carina's terrific astonomy software on the laptop with the boy on my lap. He finally fell asleep, after muttering something about Andromeda. Kinda slow typing this with one hand... But this Flylight thingie makes it semi-easy. Brilliant invention. Literally. |
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