Saturday, 3 November 2001
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Andrew Orlowski: "Not even in their wildest dreams could the business elites have imagined that in 2001, the AntiTrust department itself would be offering a convicted monopolist state protection." [Scripting News]
The Register has a good article.
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DaveNet: The Microsoft settlement. [Scripting News]
Dave has some good insites here. An independant software developers viewpoint. Also those of someone who knows the software industry intimately.
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c|net chooses OS X over Windows XP [MacNN]
Lots of controversy. Apparently c-net changed it to a tie after publishing the article.
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ComputerUser.com: Be a webmaster with Mac OS X. “Did you know that if you can point and click, you can be a webmaster and run an Apache Web server on your Mac, especially if you’re using Mac OS X?” [mac.scripting.com]
I wanna play with this stuff!
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iCab 2.6 supports QT plugin under OS X [MacNN]
Downloading now! It'd be fun to have an iPod, but difficult to rationalize. The cool thing about it is that it does support AIFF files so you don't need to compress the audio . . . especially with a 5 Gig drive!
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Apple: Open Source Databases: Overview and Installation. “There are two open source databases that have large and loyal followings: MySQL and PostgreSQL. Both run well on Mac OS X. In this article I’ll talk a little bit about these RDBMSs, describe their strengths and weaknesses, and show how you can securely install these systems on Mac OS X.” [mac.scripting.com]
I might want to have a look at this at some point. I use FMP in classic. I know how to build a usable UI. I like the idea of the power and stability of SQL but I worry about the UI.
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Getting away with it. The Justice Department's settlement mocks antitrust law and leaves Microsoft free to ravage new markets at will.
[Salon.com]
This is serious stuff.
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