Atheos Fork Announcement. "New Atheos has the following major new features: Runs on top of the Linux kernel, not the Atheos kernel, Atheos API has been merged with the BeOS API, PowerPC support, gcc 3.0.X compatiblity, OpenTracker/Deskbar desktop manager. These features give the following benefits: Most BeOS programs compile and run with little or no changes, Linux kernel means that CD-ROM, CD booting and installing, DHCP, etc.
work, Linux kernel means that driver support is excellent, Mac users get a piece of the action."
"The first BeOS program that successfully came up was Pulse, and there
was no small amoung of satisfaction to see good ole' Pulse running on my
new system. Nostalgic BeOS users can perhaps understand." [Amazing.]
Slashdot | AtheOS Fork Brings BeOS on Top of Linux. "Exactly because AtheOS and BeOS have similar technical principles (highly multithreaded, truly preemptive, similar C++ API etc), by modifying AtheOS's API to match BeOS, Bill is trying to resurrect the BeOS. By doing so this way, Bill is already way ahead from the other two efforts to ressurect BeOS, OpenBeOS (dependant on the 'clean' NewOS kernel) and BlueOS (which depends on Linux and X11)." [Interesting...]
In an interview in 1997, Pat Metheny said, "More and more, I see that it is the same thing you find wherever there is love, intensity, energy or human potential. All those good things include this same mysterious vapor that is the fabric of music." [Amen.]
Steven's Weblog. "I've got to get a wireless access point for the house. I've got a bunch of work to do and would much rather do it in the other room with the family, but need to be connected to the net." [Yes, you do need to get one. It's... one of those things where you wonder how you got along without it.]
John Robb's Radio Weblog. "We will pass the ability to store all the printed materials of the Library of Congress in 2008.[unknown entity] If we had copyright term reform, we could see a world where people carry around the Library of Congress -- legally -- on their laptop." [And hopefully, a nice, cute librarian as well. :~)]
Radio.Outliners.Com : Instant Outliner Beta Notes. "You can have an Instant Outlining Experience with this software." [Hmmm. (I've marked my calendar.)]
Six Degrees: Disorganized or Just Disorderly? "Mark was right about one thing: filing things in folders isn't always a better way than having papers strewn about the office." [Piles are better. Files are neater looking, not more efficient. Whose value system do you want to use? Cameron continues...] "It's the 21st century now, why are our file and e-mail systems based on a metaphor that does not even work in the physical world, much less in the more complicated world that comprises our files and e-mail?" [Exactly. File systems based on directories or "files and folders" are antiquated. All files should be indexed. Why hide the data from ourselves? Add to that the "web of related data" at the heart of Six Degrees... and you've got something.]
[And before all the file system folks jump down my throat... I don't really care how you store and organize this stuff. The interface to it need to change so that I can organize as little as I care to and yet still find stuff based on anything I might know about the item. Six Degrees, from what I've seen, helps, and I find Sherlock an invaluable tool on my desktop. Still, I have "special" folders for various things that I have to care for by hand. Why? At least the BeOS folks were thinking about this stuff. Everyone else seems to be in reverse.]
exim Internet Mailer. "Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge" [I like it. It does have, like most Unix software, a mysterious .conf file filled (and not filled) with all sorts of incantations... but still. Seems to mind it's own business and run reliably.]
Roger Ebert: Don't Confuse Fans With Pirates. "My guess is that no musician or band still actively engaged in trying to build an audience will want to come anywhere near it." [Two thumbs up.]
Cnotes: The Hazards of Having A Conscientious Mom. "I pour the chemicals? I pour the chemicals?"
[Other riffs on the occurance of dancing pachyderms.]
[Happy Birthday Brent! Peace and long life.]
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