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New user? Thursday, March 2, 2000
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Cool! A Linux emulator for Linux! "The user-mode Linux kernel is a port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface." (via WonkoSlice
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Slashdot Interview - Jakob Nielsen Answers Usability Questions: "I am starting to think that the solution is to treat information objects as members of a soup and manage them by attributes rather than by hierarchy and name"
What I really want to know is, does Jakob Nielsen realize he just described the [Apple] Newton platform exactly, including using the exact same terminology the Newton used?
Yes, I'm still pissed off that Apple killed the Newton. My MessagePad 2100 is still faster and better and finding information than any other PDA to date, which makes it a harder pill to swallow. I mean, if the Netwon had been eclipsed in this area by now, that'd be a different story.
Wednesday, March 1, 2000
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New QTVR pano... a provincial park near Shawnigan lake on Vancouver Island. Alex and I are on a bridge over a fairly loud, white-water creek. The quality of this VR isn't too great, as it was a little overcast and late in the day. Still, not too bad for a really small digital camera!
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John Foster: Let's talk about [Mac OS] X: "Right. It's only 2 weeks old. What should I expect? Well I expected more. Actually a lot more. As OS X Server has been out for a year. You'd have thought that dev guys would be busy beavers. Nah. Not at all." -- This quote is definitely out of context, so let me add some. There are NO native web browsers for Mac OS X yet. Not IE, not Netscape, not Mozilla, not Opera, nada.
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I was totally pysched about the "Waveport USB-to-Wireless LAN Adapter" from Inside Out Networks... until I found out it was going to cost $399. (I assume that's US$) I'm sure I can get an IEEE 802.11 PC-Card adaptor for less. Still, for pre-Airport iMacs, and B&W G3s, as well as all USB equipped PCs, this adaptor is just wonderful!
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Even though I'm a UserLand Support Associate, I didn't hear about this before anyone else. Nor did I seen any of the other new features to hit Frontier since the middle of January prior to their release. I'm not complaining, (why would I, just look at all the new features!) just stating a fact.
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Oh Canada, A Cherry Bomb (washingtonpost.com): "While politicians here love to trumpet Canada's tolerance and cultural diversity, Cherry rants against Europeans and Quebec separatists, feminists and men who aren't manly. As a defender of all things Canadian, he remains refreshingly immune to the national inferiority complex."
National inferiority complex? I got two words for ya... Manifest Destiny.
shhhh...
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
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[PR] Announcing WebObjects 4.5: "Leading Application Server Features Faster Web Development with New WebObjects Builder Interface and Direct to Java Client Technology"
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Andrew's been surfing at work SO MUCH he actually made it to the last page on the Internet. Slacker!
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a href="http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n75050">AppleCare Tech Info Library -D.C.: Thanks Don (screenshot)
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The mail server for the roepcke.com domain has been down since 7 PM PST last night. If you're trying to reach me please use jroepcke@compusmart.ab.ca. Hopefully everything will be fixed some time today. (fingers crossed)
Update: I just caught the sys-admin in a UNIX "talk" session on the mail server... turns out the FrontPage extensions (ahem Alex) are croaking the server! LOL! 
