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Saturday, 6 July 2002 |
It is possible to run ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X, and here is how. Part I is here, and Part II is here.
1:41:10 PM 
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Gene Steinberg of the Arizona Republic compares a Sony 2.2GHz Windows PC with a 1 GHz PowerMac Dual Processor computer.
You guessed it—the Sony was slower by 29% on the usual Photoshop rendering times test. The Sony came out on top in 3D games tests, but frankly, if you want to play games then go get a games console. That is what they are made for.
1:25:07 PM
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Further details on Mac OS X 10.2, codenamed Jaguar, due out in August.
[Source: Think Secret]
1:04:15 PM
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You thought Palladium and what Microsoft wants to do with your Windows machine is bad enough? Wait, there’s more!
“Did you hear about this week’s critical security update for Windows Media Player? Did you go to Windows Update and dutifully download it? Did you read the End User License Agreement or just click on the “I agree” box? Of course you didn’t read the license agreement. Nobody does. Well, they changed it a little since the last time you clicked it.
… Wait a minute! Did you just give Microsoft the right to go inside your computer and change pretty much anything they like even if it disables applications from other vendors—applications you paid good money for? And if they do mess with the inside of your computer they don’t have to ask permission or do anything except post an explanation on some web site somewhere?
Yup.”
12:56:51 PM
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Arial is a typeface included with every version of the Windows operating system, and MS Office for Macintosh, and yet it is one of the homeliest typefaces known to Man. Mark Simonson wrote an article about it. Link courtesy of Zeldman.
11:33:30 AM
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I have been coming across a few people here who are fans of the whitebox computer phenomenon, including one from Eastern Europe.
Whitebox computers are those assembled to order from off-the-shelf components, sometimes by medium to large whitebox firms but more often by one or two-man suburban computer shops. Sometimes whitebox computers will be made at home by enthusiasts in the spirit of an earlier age’s DIY electronics kits.
A search on the word revealed a rather good Sydney Morning Herald article on whitebox computers,
Home Help Desk Has Its Limitations.
“Conventional wisdom says that small businesses rely on word-of-mouth advice when it comes to buying computer hardware and software or formulating information technology strategies.
According to a survey carried out by the Sage Group, a British firm specialising in PC accounting software, conventional wisdom is spot-on. The survey found 73 per cent of small and medium-sized business operators go to friends when looking for advice on Internet or e-commerce strategy. Family members are the second source of information, with 54 per cent of respondents saying they, quite literally, make use of in-house expertise.
One reason small-business owners turn to friends and relatives is that they don’t really have much alternative.”
This augurs well for a new approach to retailing computers direct. Win some people within a wider social group over and then they will spread the word to other friends and relatives.
Regarding the whitebox thing, enough of them will have heard such tales of woe of such machines never working or breaking down constantly that it will be consigned to the trashcan of history soon enough.
There is a woman sitting next to me in my business class who was persuaded to buy such a machine by a friend. He guaranteed he would build it and look after it for her. It has never worked since she paid for it. The friend rarely turns up to help when he says he will. Endless fiddling with it has not helped one bit.
11:15:34 AM
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Further thoughts on Palladium, Microsoft and Big Brother from this US tech writer.
10:25:14 AM
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As this issue becomes clearer, I have been discussing it with various people, and have found that while most reject the idea, there are some who are very comfortable with it because they believe it will make the world a safer place for everyone.
That Microsoft and who ever else may wish to do something malign with the powers Palladium may grant them does not seem to be a possibility for these people. There is definitely a belief that anyone who is in power, or who is the richest man on the planet, has somehow got there by being supremely virtuous.
If you follow this line of reasoning, if there is any reason in it at all, then Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, Pol Pot and all the other monsters of our past gained power because it was their reward for innate virtue from a grateful God.
It may also explain why throughout human history so many people have felt obliged to worship other people as living gods.
10:10:24 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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