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New user? Sunday, June 5, 2005
Rotate your screen on Tiger
Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus: Apple and Intel: A tale of rumors and truths
I was intrigued by this so I tried to figure it out. It's easy!
- Quit System Preferences (if it's running)
- Launch System Preferences
- Hold Down the Option Key
- Click on the Displays icon
You'll see a popup for rotating the display... Standard, 90, 180 or 270. I've tried 90 and 180 and both worked! I wonder if it'd be bad for my powerbook to run it upside down... then I could build a nice stand for the PowerBook so it could run upside down and I could put a keyboard on the table where the bottom of the PowerBook (ie: its keyboard) would normally be. :-) It would kinda suck to have all the cables hanging down but maybe the stand could have some port repeaters in it. ;-)
Saturday, June 4, 2005
Apple to switch to Intel chips?!
CNET News.com: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
What would really make me happy is if they just announced Mac OS X for Intel/x86. I've been using an old AMD Duron 1200 box with 256MB of RAM running Fedora Core 3 lately, and it runs Java IDEs faster than my less-than-a-year-old PowerBook G4 1.33GHz with 1GB RAM and Tiger.
Saturday, May 28, 2005
ONLamp.com on Rexx
ONLamp.com: Rexx: Power Through Simplicity
That was a nice flashback. :-) Back in my OS/2 days I did a lot of Rexx scripting. It's quite an enjoyable scripting language. OS/2 later added ObjectRexx, which was an OSA-compliant scripting language (yes, OSA, the open scripting architecture, the foundation for AppleScript) you could use to script OpenDoc documents in OS/2 (yes, OpenDoc shipped as a standard part of OS/2 Warp v4, imagine that!)
Years ago driving on I5 in the USA, I stopped at an outlet bookstore and found a copy of the "The NetRexx Language". It's still on my bookshelf. :-) Mike Colishaw, the inventor of Rexx and an expert on decimal arithmetic, is also one of the driving forces behind the improvements java.math.BigDecimal in Java 5.
IBM: NetRexx 2
Rexx Language Association was given ObjectRexx under an open source license from IBM recently.
IBM's main REXX page.
