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Friday, January 23, 2004
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Linux Takes on the Windows Look: "Snazzy desktops are everywhere at this week's LinuxWorld. But as developers strive for a user-friendly interface, many roll out products that bear a striking resemblance to Microsoft software." [Wired News] This is strange. Microsoft copies the Mac look, and Linux copies the Windows look. This procedure seems to repeat ad infinitum. Apparently Mac OS X will be copied in Windows 2006 (Longhorn?), and probably Linux will copy that too. What about usability? Or some originality, please!
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The Top 20 Mac Programs Ever: "[W]e'll take a gander at the 20 Most Important (Not Necessarily Best) Mac Programs Ever. Some of them are best in their class products, others are just important archetypes of the Mac experience."
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Xserve G5 cluster unveiled: "Apple's focus on creating products that should be of use to the high-performance computing markets has spawned a new, little-known product combo - the Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics. This is a pre-configured bioinformatics cluster built around the new Xserve G5. The cluster includes between four and 16 servers, a rack to hold the them, cabling, and systems and application software. The bundled system includes The BioTeam's iNquiry software with 200 informatics applications including BLAST and HMMER."
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