News report: Apple to update
News report: Apple to update iBook, PowerBook. Bigger hard drives, more memory, and faster processors. Honey, keep the credit cards away from me...
Backup Brain often talks about
Backup Brain often talks about the intersection between technology and politics, and Politech is a moderated mailing list that reports on the subject. At the moment, there's good coverage of the so-called antiterrorism bills that were just passed by the House and Senate that will significantly curtail the privacy of Americans. Scary stuff.
Brent Simmons from UserLand started
Brent Simmons from UserLand started a Macintosh scripting weblog, but he's missing the absolute coolest thing: JavaScript OSA just went final.
Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of
Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty. Another winner from The Onion.
If you're like me and
If you're like me and you miss that Weblogs.com list of blogs that have changed in the last three hours, it appears to be hiding here. Anyone know if the search functionality still exists somewhere?
Web Entourage Software's BlogScript v0.98
Web Entourage Software's BlogScript v0.98 for Mac OS X is pretty cool; it uses the new AppleScript stuff in OS X 10.1 to send to your Blogger weblog anything that's on your Clipboard.
Some people have heard all
Some people have heard all about this. Some people (who should) haven't heard anything at all. I'm too wiped to remember who's in which category at the moment (and my apologies for that), so here's an attempt to put it all in one place: my health status. It'll be updated as necessary.
New links here: LucDesk and
New links here: LucDesk and Nothing and Some More.
Just a little bit o'
Just a little bit o' Photoshop--but on which one? This picture is not the same as this picture. (Later note: Wired's explanation--and yes, it's real).
If you're not doing anything
If you're not doing anything tonight, c'mon by the Sonoma County Web Developers SIG. The featured speakers tonight are, well, us, flogging our book discussing JavaScript.
Too far north for you? Not enough notice? Otherwise, you'd have been there, you promise? Well, we've got a solution for you folks, too. On October 23, we'll be doing a similar talk at the North Bay Multimedia Association's Web Developers' SIG.
See you there!
We're more nuts than you.
We're more nuts than you. Funny. And pretty true, too. Makes me proud to be an American.
Camworld (regarding switching to Apple):
Camworld (regarding switching to Apple): I think that many companies are going to start looking at the millions of dollars they can save by not using Microsoft.
Evhead: The flexibility would be cool, but how could you possibly save money when Apple's hardware costs so much more?
Our answer: Simple--build your own Mac clone. If you think that you can only do this with Wintel, you'd be wrong.
Start with a used Umax S900 or J700 from eBay. That should cost about $150.
Add a Sonnet Crescendo 400 MHz G4 card for $300, and add another $30 for software that will let it run OS X.
Add more RAM. RAM is cheap these days, except for older machines. Get at least 128 MB to add to whatever came with, which should cost about $100.
Next, a new hard drive. You can get a 40 GB IDE drive for about $75, which will require that you also get a SCSI/IDE bridge card, which goes for around $70.
As long as you're working inside, you might as well get a PCI/USB card, so you can use any USB peripherals you have lying around. That's about $20.
Total cost: under $750, plus tax and shipping. Yeah, it's not quite as fast as what Apple's shipping right now, and it won't win any beauty contests, but it'll happily run OS X for 1/3 the cost of Apple's high-priced beauties. Oh, and it's considerably more flexible than what Apple's selling; it still supports SCSI and ADB, comes with a floppy drive, and has lots of slots.
I'm speaking from experience, btw. We've got two of them here (although not exactly as spec'd above) and they make great workhorse machines.
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