Monthly Archives: August 2002

AOL‘s latest release for OS X uses the Gecko engine, the technology behind the Mozilla browser. This was inevitable, given that AOL owns Netscape and doesn’t have to get Microsoft’s permission to change things (as on the Windows desktop). Apple, … Read More →

It’s fun to buy and install new hardware, even when it’s a work machine. I just picked up an IBM SCSI drive and some memory from a local outfit, Microworx for much less than I could have (if the parts … Read More →

As a followup to the MS “threat” to stop developing for the Mac, Tim O’Reilly went to Redmond and talked directly to Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit head.

The Danish Mac site, macnyt.dk has a series of articles (in English) about the history of the Apple logo. You know, the rainbow-colored apple with the bite out of it. Cool reading for the Mac faithful.

Doc riffs on Linux on the desktop. Nobody does it like Doc.

ExtremeTech reports IBM To Disclose 64-Bit Desktop PowerPC. Can Apple not be contemplating using it? Bet they have Linux running on it before any of the other IBM OS’s.

If you’ve seen an old monster movie or taken a physics class in high school, you know what a Tesla coil is. And maybe you want to build your own. [Note: these people are serious and so is the potential … Read More →

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, a pioneer of Computer Science, has passed away. He’s the source of the famed “GOTO considered harmful”, among other important ideas.