Monday, August 26, 2002

I took some photos at the uiuc.test cookout this afternoon/evening. Unlike last Friday, it only rained a little this time. 9:31:59 PM | reply [] Jaguar's standard command-line Telnet client is Kerberized! I was having trouble connecting to the U of I's registration server from Samson, so I wondered if the server was down and tried to connect directly, expecting a message telling me that my connection was insecure. Instead I got "[ Kerberos V5 accepts you as ``njriley@UIUC,EDU'' ]". What a pleasant surprise! I didn't see this documented anywhere. I hope this means it'll be easier to get SSH compiled with GSSAPI support than it was in 10.1. 5:44:16 PM | reply [] A few amusing things from MacFixIt this morning... As on Friday, the top story is subscription-only. The teaser for this story continues to show a poor command of English vocabulary: Our Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) Special Report, which consists of extensive troubleshooting insight and commentary from Macintosh industry figureheads including Microsoft and Tenon Intersystems, is available for Pro subscribers here. Figurehead \Fig"ure*head`\, n. 2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief. Then there's the person who is upset that Apple deleted his time zone in Jaguar: Our Time zone has been removed. This wouldn't be a problem because we can piggy back off another time zone. Unfortunately this time zone observes daylight savings and we dont. A checkbox for ignoring daylight savings would be great. 12:04:47 PM | reply [] This week's MWJ includes a reference to Julio Ojeda-Zapata's Jaguar Journal. It's a mini-Weblog covering the Pioneer Press technology writer's exploits with Jaguar. Unlike most such journals I've read, which often do more to demonstrate the writer's ignorance and snap judgments than anything else, this one is filled with useful information, plentiful links, and reader responses. The material on Bluetooth was most interesting—while Jaguar is Apple's second effort in Bluetooth support, the phones' software still appears stuck firmly at 1.0. Price aside, I won't be getting a Bluetooth-capable phone any time soon. The only seeming inaccuracy I noted was a claim that Jaguar's built-in Internet connection sharing doesn't support sharing modem connections. I had no problem doing just that last week in New Hampshire, so I emailed the author, and was astonished to receive two replies within a few minutes. Ojeda-Zapata was able to get it working: you can read my email on the subject in the ninth installment of "Jaguar Journal". 12:39:03 AM | reply []