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Saturday, January 26, 2002
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 Saturday, January 26, 2002
started 1/26/2002; 1:47:08 AM - last post 1/27/2002; 7:51:38 PM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, January 26, 2002 
1/26/2002; 5:47:08 AM (reads: 3704, responses: 6)
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Slippery Palm 
| | Apple says Palm Desktop 4 is one of the Top OS X downloads. I follow the link to here and then here and find the only actionable link is "Register for Public Beta." When I do that, it thanks me. And that's it. Nothing more. Where the fuck do you download the software? |
| | I think I wrote about this before. I don't remember. I don't have time. I just need to sync this damn thing, and I can't yet in OS X. My laptop and Handspring haven't talked in 2 weeks. |
| | Oh. I see. In an earlier page it tells me an email will come. I just checked. An email did come. I follow the link. Nothing happens. |
| | Does anybody know where I can go to a page or an FTP site to download this thing? Thanks. |
| | [Later...] I finally got through. (Big thanks to everybody who helped.) Two out of the three English download sites were busy (or something, who knows), but the third worked. And even though the install "unexpectedly quit" while importing data, it's now functional, at least on the laptop. I'll have to check it with the Handspring later. |
The Little Engine that Got All Wierd
Not the proudest moment for the Washington Post
| | ... here's something for those of you interested in what can go wrong in capital-J Journalism (aka "responsible" journalism) when (a) rumors are assumed to be true, (b) sourcing isn't really buttoned up, and (c) there are Red Flags all around, but the writer doesn't hedge his or her language to acknowledge the "may be true" factor. |
Yes, Virginia...
Have a deep time
| | Did I mention I'm a geology freak? Well, I am. But I don't often talk about it because it's one of those subjects that tends to clear the room of all but the other geology freaks, which number, percentage wise in a lightly populated room, around zero. |
| | But still, I'm into it. Which is why reading the geological history of Virginia occupied the last half hour of my life. If you're still in the room, you might wanna dig it. |
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jeneane - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/27/2002; 12:55:02 AM (reads: 509, responses: 1)
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Re: The Little Engine that Got All Wierd
Doc, have you seen gluetrain.com? I hadn't, til I happened upon it in a post over at the slashdot brawl over Katz's lousy review of Dave's "Small Pieces."
There's probably a fame-to-parody ratio somewhere we can use to prove that you gentlemen are climbing to mega-stardom.
Congratulations?
-jeneane
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Doc Searls - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/27/2002; 3:12:40 AM (reads: 612, responses: 0)
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Thanks!
In fact we point to Gluetrain on the Cluetrain site. I believe the link says "Fuzz" (to contrast with Buzz).
It's funny as shit.
As for mega-stardom, I dunno. I'tll be 3 years soon since the Cluetrain site went up, and it's 2 since the book came out.
Still selling, though.
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Denise Howell - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/27/2002; 8:45:20 PM (reads: 582, responses: 3)
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Doc, have you picked up this book yet: David Pogue's guide to Mac OS X? One nice feature is the posting of reader feedback online: (Unconfirmed) Reader Feedback Page. Another is it addresses issues like the OS9/OSX boot difficulty you had. I don't think it answers your Palm question, but would seem to be a handy resource to keep you up and posting. (P.S. - your overall good experience with OSX is factoring into my decision to make a Mac move some time soon. That one-button mouse thing is going to take some getting used to...)
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Paul Snively - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/27/2002; 9:54:49 PM (reads: 675, responses: 1)
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Some time back, there were mouse vendors that offered two- or three-button mice for the Mac. These came with a control panel that let you assign modifier keys (shift, option, control, or combos) to the extra mouse buttons. Highly recommended for folks migrating to the Mac from other platforms or, for that matter, lifelong Mac users who routinely use software that requires extensive use of modifier keys when clicking!
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Doc Searls - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/27/2002; 11:51:38 PM (reads: 672, responses: 0)
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I got the fattest book I could find, with the most about command line operation. It still wasn't much.
Thanks, I'll get Pogue's book.
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Denise Howell - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/28/2002; 2:07:58 AM (reads: 738, responses: 0)
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Thanks, that sounds like a lifesaver. I'm a right-click addict.
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