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Thursday, August 22, 2002

Unix as Literature -- Comment()
Nice comments about Unix and Mac OS X at Unix As Literature: Revisited. There are many people like me who have been using a Mac as a front-end to a Unix machine. I actually used a Mac as a front-end to an IBM 3090 VF mainframe system for a couple of years. I wrote user guides to that system as a part of my work.

The Mac ease of use combined with the scripting capabilities of Unix is a powerful combination, even though in the past the systems have been separate. Now when Unix and Mac live together, I have arrived at $HOME.

Blogger and Radio work together? -- Comment()
I went back to Blogger and had a look at my blog there. I realized I could mirror the posts made by Radio to the blog here at Universal Rule to the blog at universalrule.blogspot.com. Perhaps this works. I would like to have a "nice" address for the blog, if I decide to continue it.

Look at the start of the web -- Comment()
I moved here a couple of texts I wrote during the last decade. In 1997 I had a look at the five years of my math web site. I didn't remember (until re-reading that article) that I actually started with a Gopher site in 1992. So that makes the service about 10 years old. Now I'm just barely keeping it alive, pruning away out-dated information bit by bit.

About Last Rebel Coders -- Comment()
The Last Rebel Coders is a story set to happen about 10 years in the future. I hope the article provides light but provocative reading.

I originally wrote the story in the Summer of 2001 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Linux. That version appeared as a column in an IT magazine in Finland. In the Summer 2002 I decided to make an English translation. I had to change some wordings and shorten the text to retain some of the flow and style of the original Finnish version.