Sunday, June 8, 2003

From the Working-with-it Dept



From The Yeah-It-Sucks Dept
Jon Rentzsch on Finder File Extension Fun

Fun bugs in the OS X Finder... are file extensions a step backwards after all?




From The History Dept:
mp3newswire | Thomas Edison, IP, and the Recording Industry

A piece that goes way back in the recording history - back to when it first started with Edison.

Somewhat interesting article, if very long. Plus, I'm not all that fasinated with Edison to begin with...




From The Switching Dept
Mitch Kapor switches to Mozilla

An interesting tale of Mitch's journey to the Lizard.

I use Camino on the iMac, and a mix of Omniweb and Safari on my tiBook, with other browsers thrown in when I'm doing web development.




From the Linux Dept:
A few months ago I installed Yellow Dog Linux on my QA machine, but I didn't do much playing around with it.

After I got it installed I couldn't figure out how to install other software. Ho Hum, no big deal, whatever, I don't use it that much anyway.

Today I had some spare cycles, and not wanting to do any actual work ('cause I'm currently sick) I played around with that machine a little.

Observations:

  • Gnome takes up far less screen space than KDE. I'm sure there's a way to make the former suck up less screen space, but I couldn't find it
  • Yellow Dog Linux uses the apt-get package system - oh boy! I know how to use that from my time with Fink. Say w00t for stuff you already understand!

Screen space matters to me because I have a 12" monitor on my QA machine, and the apt-get stuff matters because I don't want to learn how to use Yet Another Package Manager. Knowing two is more than enough.