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Monday, September 3, 2001
Lighting up the Skyline 
| | Jason S writes suggesting that the Skyline problem for Joyce's G3/400 Lombard might be cured by the latest driver, 3.0.1, which I just downloaded from VersionTracker. Hope it works. I'll check it out after Joyce gets off her machine and I can copy it over there. |
| | Another writer suggested the issue might be heat. You could fry an egg on the bottom of the Lombard (and on this Titanium, too, which is heating a pair of huevos this very moment), so it makes sense. The failure usually occurs after a few minutes, when the machine gets up to running temperature. |
| | Anyway, stay tuned on that one. |
| | Many thanks as well to the folks who wrote in with help on the hub-to-hub network issue. I'm going to try to get professional help on that one tomorrow. |
Front to school
| | Jeffrey isn't going back to school tomorrow. He's starting outright: it'll be his first day at kindergarten. |
| | It isn't just coincidental that we live a block away from Jeffrey's new school. It's not only one of the best public schools in the country, but very much a part of its community. |
| | I'm doing my best not to let my own misgivings about school (which aren't much different from, say, this dad here — or what John Taylor Gatto says here) get in the way. Jeffrey's a terrific kid who loves to learn and play. He should be able to make the most of it. |
Detecting an absence
| | This piece reads like a long-form press release for FaceTime, but it says some interesting things about instant messaging and its related issues. |
| | FaceTime's site says the company works with "the identity, presence and real-time communication capabilities provided by the leading Instant Messaging (IM) networks." It does this through "partnerships with America On-Line/Time Warner (AOL), Microsoft Corporation, and Yahoo!" Those networks happen to run on the Internet, but are all closed as clams. Their game is lock-in and lock-out. |
| | Jabber's game, on the other hand, is roughly the same as Apache's and SendMail's. Which means it's about building Internet infrasturcture. Why wouldn't FaceTime want to work with Jabber, Inc. as well as the big closed-game players, I wonder? |
Truckin'
| | We finally found Knapp's Castle yesterday (three earlier tries failed, owning mostly to bad directions in a guide book). Great little hike, in spite of the tiny blue flies that followed us around. Afterwards we went to Cold Spring Tavern, which is a hippie/biker/beer/dining/historical/nature intersection of the highest order. If you're around, you have to check it out. Great place. |
Onward and outward
| | Here's Jay Harris on what's happening to the newspaper business. I know and like Jay, but wish I knew him better. I only learned last week that he had left the Mercury-News. Considering the ruckus involved, I'm surprised I didn't learn about it earlier, even though I was in mid-move (and no longer a subscriber) when the heavy stuff went down. |
Profiles in Penguinage
| | Here's Craig on LinuxWorld (with pix of me with my hard-won Golden Penguin, among other things) |
First the Dmitry thing, now this
| | Deborah flays an Adobe item in her latest "Press Releases Must Die" rant. Funny stuff. What still amazes me is that anybody reads these things at all once they exit the corporate anus. |
Profiles in suckage
| | I'm sitting here watching a hopeless search take — Oh! After about ten minutes of waiting for some awful javascript to deliver some results (nothing you could link to or anything), results actually happened! Herewith, Sony's search results for the word "drivers": |
| | - 20th Anniversary Fontopia® Headphones
- Street Style Stereo Headphones
- CD Walkman® Portable Compact Disc Player
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| | Useless doesn't come close to covering it. |
| | Once I get them... or whatever I need to enable a relationship betwen the PC-110 and either of the relatively new Macs here at the house, maybe you'll see the really cool pictures I took with the thing today. |
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