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Monday, January 13, 2003
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The way weblogs really work:
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Apple Hit Microsoft with an Open Hand (a net column in Finnish) -- Comment()
I wrote a net column titled "Apple Hit Microsoft with an Open Hand" (in Finnish, Apple löi Microsoftia avokämmenellä). The column appeared today on the net, have to see if it generates feedback. Reading weblog commentary on the Safari browser was useful for formulating my own thoughts for the column.
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Microsoft agrees to $1.1 billion class settlement: "Hundreds of thousands of Californians could benefit from an estimated $1.1 billion settlement announced late Friday by Microsoft Corp. in a class-action antitrust suit." [Computerworld News]
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MacSlash points to Cringely: Apple v. Microsoft: Products like Safari are always brewing inside Apple, but like Mystery House, they hardly ever get out. That Safari escaped has as much to do with Microsoft as it has to do with Apple. Relations between the two companies have lately been strained. Microsoft, out from under its Department of Justice legal cloud and feeling once again empowered to act on its corporate paranoia, has been grumbling about pulling Mac IE and about poor sales of Mac Office V.X. But this time, rather than capitulate, Apple has fired back with a world class browser of its own. I like that. |
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Apple Kills Small Developers: "I don't know why Apple doesn't spend more money on its OS and less on application software best left to third parties." (Eclecticity II via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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The Scobleizer Weblog tells that Dan Shafer has a good rant against Apple: 'Both Microsoft and Apple have messed up their "farm systems." It used to be that there was a good farm system of small developers who'd build things for each platform. Now both Microsoft and Apple are trying to do everything in house. Part of that is frustration with relying on outside developers (heck, Quark XPress still hasn't been ported to OS X). Part of it is an unwillingness to share secrets (and make outside entities wealthy). But, it doesn't make a platform healthier, either, since most innovations come from small companies. Look at Weblogging. The Weblogging world has been steadily growing for more than two years now, but neither company has done anything for individuals like the handful of weblogging companies have.'
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Who's the biggest threat to world peace: "TimeEurope has a poll that asks readers which country poses the biggest danger to world peace in 2003 - North Korea, Iraq or The United States. That is not a hard question, and the voters are pretty clear on what they think. After I and 73,000 other people voted, the standing was 10.4% for North Korea, 16.6% for Iraq, and 73% for The United States. For most Americans, that's probably a shocking result, or it gets dismissed as bogus, but that is probably because of the scarcity of balanced world news within the United States." [Ming's Metalogue]
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Usenet is good: 'From the "don't throw away the past" department, a thought-provoking discussion of what's good about good ol' Usenet as compared to weblogs.' [Seb's Open Research]
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A Novelist Who Walks the Walk: "Wired News just ran my story, A Novelist Who Walks the Walk, about Cory Doctorow's new book and its license for free digital redistribution." [Paul Boutin]
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The X Factor: Apple Rolls Out New Version of X11 Windowing Environment: "Apple [...] quietly announced X11 for Mac OS X, its own new open-source implementation of XFree86. [...] The new implementation supports SSH tunneling and runs concurrently and seamlessly with other applications that use Apple's Aqua user interface. Content can be cut, copied and pasted between X and Aqua windows. It also takes advantage of Apple's Quartz graphics system." [ranchero.com]
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WebCore: "WebCore is the framework developers can use to add Safari’s HTML renderer to their applications. There’s a pretty good chance NetNewsWire will use this. Step one for me will be to get it working with a simple test app." [ranchero.com]
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X11 Tips: "Mac OS X Hints has a collection of tips for using Apple’s new X11 implementation." [ranchero.com]
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A good thing about Safari.: "Apple's Safari is rather un-impresive browser but there is one thing that Apple does that makes a lot of sense: they'll make it into a framework called WebCore that other people will be able to use as a HTML rendering engine. Ability to easily display HTML in one's apps seems like a no-brainer but it always amazed me how hard it actually is." [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog]
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Blogs refine enterprise focus: "Free or low-cost personal tools from pioneering software companies such as UserLand Software, Pyra Labs, Moveable Type, and others have fueled the thriving Weblog personal publishing movement since its emergence in the late 1990s. [...] While many freeware vendors also offer fee-based software and services for corporate users, a newer crop of vendors is stepping up to extend Weblogs to specific business processes such as corporate intelligence gathering and market research." [IDG InfoWorld]
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Using MATLAB with Apple's X11 beta: "MATLAB was ported to OS X as an X-windows application, and is currently only supported with the OroborOSX window manager. X11 is much faster, and it is easy make MATLAB operate with this manager." [Mac OS X Hints]
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Safari update available: "Apple has released an update to their Safari web browser, bringing it to beta version 51 (the initial release was v48)." [MacMegasite]
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SPEC revamps high performance benchmark: "Revised benchmarks for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and the MPI and OpenMP standards for parallel processing have been issued by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation." [The Register]
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EFF Report: Four Years Under the DMCA: "Four years of experience with the 'anti-circumvention' provisions of the DMCA demonstrate that the statute reaches too far, chilling a wide variety of legitimate activities in ways Congress did not intend." [Privacy Digest]
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About Tits, for the Winter -- Comment()
This has been a cold winter in Finland. People are interested in the well-being of Tits, naturally. A colleague pointed out the web site of the Tit-Watching Society, which was formed in 1824, by Lord Roylott of Stoke Moran, Surrey. There you find a nice classification, and quite a few pictures of Tits.
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Realists vs. Romantics: Europeans vs. Americans -- Comment()
A newspaper here in Finland had a long article about the differences between Europeans and Americans. This is apparent for example in the attitudes towards the so-called "terrorist nations". According to the article, Europeans are realists, who see the world as it is, in all shades, not just black and white. In contrast, Americans are romantics, who see the world as they would like it to be, according to their own vision. Of course, this is a gross oversimplification, and not terribly original. But is there some truth in this? Perhaps Americans like to greate myths of good and evil, and explain history according to the "good guys" and "bad guys". In Europe we distrust this kind of myths, because we see that good intentions may generate the greatest evil. I believe myself to be a romantic. This is apparent in many situations where I found that I have greatly misunderstood the reality. In these situations I find that my actions were based on my own visions, not reality. It would help to ask more questions, and keep the eyes open. But a romantic is not inclined to do that.
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