Saturday, December 6, 2003

Top 10 Personal Computers, Revised [Slashdot] 5:45:01 PM

Tech Milestones. John and Ben have posted some tech milestones that have made them stop and stare. I'll jump onto this particular bandwagon with some that amazed me and others that changed how I think: First Program : Pascal, CS100, University of Queensland, 1981 First Assembler Program: PDP-8, 1982 First Macintosh sighting: 1984 IMS + Transactions: 1984 Local Area Network: ARCNET, 1985 OS/2 2.0: 1991 Lotus Notes 2.1: 1992 Apple WWDC: 1995 Galileo and Jupiter: 1995-2003 Groove: 1999 Broadband Internet, wireless gateway + laptop: 2 weeks ago [justinknol.net - a stack of useful stuff] 5:34:25 PM

YellowDogLinux 3.0.1 with HFS+ Support. Since installing Panther I've been waiting for YellowDogLinux to support Panther's HFS+ filesystem. V. 3.0.1 has just been released and now the other partitioned half of my iBook will no longer be a hallow shell (pun intended) of a hard drive. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs] 5:28:43 PM

Three Months with Slackware Linux 9.1 [OSNews] 4:02:35 PM

Maintaining a Blogroll with NetNewsWire. Peter Rukavina combines NetNewsWire’s AppleScript-ability with PHP running on his server to automate his blogroll. [ranchero.com] 3:35:07 PM