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Monday, October 27, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Thinking about the future of internet -- Comment()
I plan to write an article about the future of internet. What are the new uses of networks after five years, or after 20 years? What current projects will transform the net as we know it today? There are several interesting topics worth checking, and of course quite a few treatises have already been written on this topic. But I want to learn for myself, so I try to read a lot besides these treatises. Also, I have to schedule visits to discuss these topics with networking specialists in Finland.
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Installing Panther -- Comment()
I just received a review copy of Panther from Apple. I'm installing the system on my 600 MHz iBook to see how well it performs on an older system. First I have to see how long the installation takes. Update: it took 42 minutes for the install to go through and the login window to appear. I tweaked the installation a bit (custom Archive and Install setup), which took some minutes, so the real time for the installation was a bit over 30 minutes. Update 2: apparently I was too hasty: the login window appeared but then the installer continued and asked for Install Disk 2. So this will take still some time. Now the installer is apparently installing the iApps (iMovie currently). I'll skip these comments and wait for Panther to start. Am I impatient? Yes!
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Panther? What panther? "Horst has been kind of nervous lately. He seems to be anxiously waiting for some panther, or at least that's what he's mumbling about most of the time. Now according to my encyclopedia, a panther is just what I thought it was, "a black-colored variation of a species of big cat", which can be either a black leopard, jaguar, or puma." [The Aardvark Speaks]
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Ken Bereskin's "Panther" Weblog discusses - what else - Panther: "If you haven't seen the Panther box yet, here are the features that we highlight on the inside flap. The box, by the way, is quite impressive - black with a beautiful embossed metallic X on the front cover. I'll give you my own comments on each of these (and many more) in future posts."
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Addendum on FUD at Jargon File Resources -- Comment()
SCO linked to the definition on FUD in their memorandum. Eric Raymond updated the entry, and wrote: "In October 2003, SCO's lawyers filed a memorandum in which they actually had the temerity to link to the web version of this entry in furtherance of their claims. Whilst we appreciate the compliment of being treated as an authority, we can return it only by observing that SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves compared to which IBM at its historic worst looked positively angelic."
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Searching full text of books at Amazon -- Comment()
Clash of the titans: Amazon vs. Google points to Ned Batchelder on Amazon's new search feature: "Now Amazon lets you search the full text of its books. This is astounding, not only because of the further differences it highlights between Amazon and traditional bookstores, but because of the effort it must have taken to accomplish. The text seems to be from scans of pages, subjected to an OCR process. And not just the bulk of popular books, either. They've got all sorts of wild and wooly volumes available this way." [Jon's Radio]
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Creating Easy-to-Deploy Unix Applications for OS X: "With OS X’s Unix foundations came the promise of access to thousands of Unix applications for Mac users. But if those applications are hard to install, configure, and use, everyone loses... The good news is that software developers can remove these obstacles for users, often with only small changes to their development practices." [ranchero.com]
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Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail: "The version of Mail that ship with Mac OS X 10.3 has gained the ability to sign and encrypt email messages. This is terrific news, because it allows us to verify the identity of the sender of a received email message, it allows us to verify that the message has not been tampered with in transit and finally it allows us to send encrypted email messages - in other words the ability to put an envelope and a seal on our email messages." [via visakopu.net]
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Norman Fischer: "We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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