Joel on Software. "Fog Creek Software shipped a new version of CityDesk today, a free service pack release that fixes about 100 bugs and adds some spiffy new features that people were clamoring for. The biggest complaint about CityDesk was that it generated weird URL names (which actually surprised me, because most other content management systems do the same). So we fixed that. We added a few easy features that I think will go a long way. And we fixed all known bugs -- many of which we found out about because CityDesk catches most crashes and transmits crucial crash info to us." [Mazel Tov! I wonder if Joel is going to document the crash transmission stuff. I've been thinking about implementing something similar...] *
Apple - Remote Desktop. "Apple Remote Desktop with real-time screen sharing is the ideal desktop management solution for education, businesses, and professionals on the go. It gives you the power to manage Mac systems from anywhere on your network or remotely across the Internet. It can reduce administrative costs and enhance productivity in any environment." [Timbuktu is cross platform, although no one I know likes it on Windows... OTOH 10 clients for $300 isn't bad if you need that many...]
RFC: MetaWeblog API. "...now it's time to broaden the XML-RPC pipe that tools use to connect to Radio, and in doing so offer an evolution to the art of scripting weblog tools." [Excellent, Excellent, Excellent. The basic level of this API has been integrated into Archipelago. I can post to Radio with links and titles. I took the opportunity to find and fix some other bugs. There's one more thing I want to investigate and then it's out to the testers.] *
[As I expected, there's been some discussion about the API. I knew there would be, so I stuck my nose in the code, and only now came up for air... now that I have an implementation that is...]
[To those enthusiastic folks that wrote to me about ten minutes after Dave posted the RFC... Thank you. But I can't even read that fast! :~)]
DigitalConsumer.org. "Have you ever made a tape of your favorite songs to enjoy in your car stereo? Have you ever bought a CD and ripped it to your portable MP3 player? If so, you should know that recent changes to copyright law have been used to take away your personal use rights to the media you legally acquire. That means that activities like making mixes or copying music to a portable player are quickly being restricted or prevented." [Go and get involved. They have a really easy way to send a fax to your Representatives.]
via John Robb.
Piracy, or Innovation? It's Hollywood vs. High Tech. "That brought an angry retort from Andrew S. Grove, the chairman of Intel. "Is it the responsibility of the world at large to protect an industry whose business model is facing a strategic challenge?" he said in an interview. "Or is it up to the entertainment industry to adapt to a new technical reality and a new set of consumers who want to take advantage of it?"
"But many veterans of Silicon Valley say it is not the responsibility of technology to enforce copyright law. Telling technology companies to build devices that prevent copyright infringement, they contend, is like telling automakers to build cars that cannot exceed the speed limit."
"Unfortunately in many cases, fear is paralyzing Hollywood's ability to seize what I believe is an incredible opportunity," said Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer. "We at Apple believe most people want to be honest, and if offered reasonable choices, most people will choose to buy their content." [Yes! Sadly, it get's worse. Toward the end of the article the guy from News Corp implies that if he broadcast the cource code for Windows or Intel chip manufacturing that the Tech industry would get behind this. Of course, they're not the same thing...]
Brent, Doc, how far behind are Sleepy and Sneezy? *
UNIX under the Desktop. "Put another way, OS X gives us the first popular desktop OS that fits into a prevailing Linux environment and also into the prevailing marketplace. On the bottom, it's UNIX. On the top, it runs Microsoft Office and the whole Adobe suite. This has its appeals." [by Doc Searls and Brent Simmons. (There's even a picture of Brent and Papa.)]
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