More links from other weblogs you probably read:
- The Postal Service served cease and desist by government (retarded)
- CVS homedir – I was just talking to a friend the other day about synching all my rc files in CVS
- Roundup of roundups of roundups
Worried?
From everything I’ve read since the fiaSCO started, I think the Judge(s) will be very convinced when Linus loses it on the stand and starts calling the SCO people morons.
Linus: YOU MORONS!
SCO Legal Minion: Objection!
Judge: Overruled, statement of fact.
Since this whole CPU issue seems to be blowing up, I decided to follow up on where my friend got the original information, which is from this MacNN thread. While he swears that this isn’t a reporting error, but a noticeable speed difference, an email exchange led me to try to double-check Xbench CPU scores. It appears, at least in my case, that there’s no difference pre or post PMU reset. Also, some people have mentioned this is only happening w/ 12″ AlBooks, but I do have at least one report of a 1GHz TiBook being affected. So, real problem? Reporting error? I’ll keep an eye out, but my own tests seem to point to the former, but your experience might be different.
Update: second report of the 867MHz being significantly faster than the 533MHz
- The Dick and Jane Reader for Advanced Students – great, great stuff
- About With and For Part 3: Students Say The Darnedest Things! – great stuff on technology/product design, peterme’s been on a roll (except that epinions social software thing, I mean seriously)
- Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms – long but insightful article from this month’s First Monday; yes, ultimately this is a political question, which is why I’m pessimistic
- CodeCon – Feb 20-22 @ Club NV, SF CA; I won’t have code ready by then, but will probalby be worth going to, wonder if I can fit that in right before ETCON?
- 15 Trends Taking Shape In Logo Design
- meet the makers: A Conversation With John Witchel – creator of BrowserCam
- Man vs Machine, in VR! – Kasperov is at it again, but this time, wearing ridiculous 3d glasses
- Fundrace 2004 – money contributions by county. Cool
- Linus Fields Dev Questions On the Future of Linux – fun interview
White House Puts Limits on Queries From Democrats:
The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers.
If you’re a student looking to buy a Mac, it looks like joining up as a Student Developer ($99) and using the one-time hardware discount (20%) from the ADC Hardware Store would be your best bet if you don’t have any special connections/deals. You can get a Dual 2GHz G5 for just over $2000, 1/3 off list-price. (a normal academic discount is 10%)
Of course, my plan is still to get my G5 for free.
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- Audiopad – 2 friends mentioned this over the past two days, weird coincidink
- There: Impressions and Analysis – interesting review, when I get a chance (Dec probably, I’ll do my own writeup after testing out There and Second Life)
I believe There is a pure representation of a white middle class consumer society, the type that corporations wet themselves dreaming about. Everything costs money, and the only contribution players can make is to add to the amount of preexisting goods other users can buy. The game is completely static, with no innovation happening that isn’t controlled completely by the developers, and all profits from everything flowing into their pockets.
- Giving E-mail back to the users: Using digital signatures to solve the spam problem – OK, glad I’m not the only one thinking along these lines
- JAM LOG – an interesting looking blog. Too bad it’s in Japanese
- Llorca – downtempo, jazz-house
- Panther defaults to bash, not tcsh. Hoo-ray for COMMON SENSE. Also,
chshnow directly syncs to the NetInfo db. cool