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Monday, July 01, 2002

Holy Smokes, Batman! It's a laptop double-wide with a 2048x1536 screen! [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] 2:11:37 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

This is what Microsoft's Palladium is about?. Robert Cringley has an interesting perspective on Microsoft's proposed Palladium system, which is supposedly being pitched for the good of Internet security. I would like to say that Mac users can just ignore this trash, but Microsoft has its fingers all over the Mac too. This is a good time to pay attention to Mr. Bill's latest move to try to make up for the fact that the Internet kicked his butt and took him and his company completely by surprise. [Mac Net Journal] 10:27:12 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

802.11b News: Warchalking Hits Government. [Scripting News] 9:52:00 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Richard was asking for opinions about using the C# type aliases versus using the FCL types (e.g. int vs System.Int32). It's subjective, of course, but I always use the C# type aliases. I figure, if you're going to use the language, one should embrace it fully. In C#, the type aliases mean int==System.Int32, and I don't mind doing the mapping when I need to find the correct method on System.Convert. This issue goes beyond the type aliases - the language offers all sorts of features that have different FCL equivalents. For example, lock maps to Monitor.Enter/Monitor.Exit, using(resource-acquisition-statement) maps to try/finally/IDisposable.Dispose, foreach maps to IEnumerable.GetEnumerator/IEnumerator.MoveNext/IEnumerator.Current, etc. People tend not to complain about these constructs (with the possible exception of using(resource-acquisition-statement) under edge cases), and I see type aliases as just another example. Heck, using namespace; lets you import a namespace so you can refer to System.Console as just Console - does this make things unclear, and should it be avoided? (I think not!) Taking full advantage of the language is goodness, why take a stand against type aliases? [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] 8:24:33 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Fossil Flora Suggest Rain Forest Once Flourished Where Colorado Now Burns [Scientific American] 8:18:51 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

NYT: Puncturing Web Ads Before They Pop Up. "Last September, a German company called MediaBeam released a program that lets Web sites block visitors who use anti-ad software -- the first anti-anti-ad software. Within days, a 25-year-old German programmer published instructions for defeating MediaBeam's blockade, in effect inventing the first anti-anti-anti-ad software. Predictably, MediaBeam responded by announcing version 2.0 of its product, designed to block the blocker's block of ad-blockers. It's going to be a long millennium." Time to switch to Lynx? [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 8:07:24 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Couple who had sex on beach must apologize in print. A couple who engaged in a sex act on a Lake Erie beach in broad daylight have been ordered to place a public apology in two local newspapers. [Twin Cities] 7:54:14 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Mailing list for OS X Web Services Developers. Brent Simmons: I've been thinking of starting a mailing list for developers who write web services desktop apps for Mac OS X. If I hear from a few people that they would participate, I'll get it started. [inessential.com] [Jeff's Radio Weblog] 7:53:57 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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