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Hmmm... sounds interesting. Could you evaluate my resume? It's available in:
.PDF
and
Word

As an example, I suggest you look at the comments for SWISH++. It uses function preambles and cites references to standards and other works.

I started a thread on MacNN about the fact that any cocoa application can read a new Macintosh's unique serial number. I even wrote a sample program that accesses and displays it.

I thought that others might be as concerned as I was. Instead, someone confirmed that, yes-- the Mac's GUID is globally accessible, yes-- it's on the motherboard... but no need to worry because "As much as you feel that the serial number can be abused it won't. No vendor has shown any indication that they will use unique IDs in their programs and all we can do is hope that they won't."

Uh yeah right. Except for Windows 98, RealNetworks, Word for Mac, etc.

Why is that Intel's GUID problems were such a big deal and this barely gets a shrug?

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• Dsico - Love Will Freak Us (Missy E - Get ur Freak On/Joy Division - Love will Tear Us Apart)
• Dsico - Two Turntables are Ice (Ice T - Check Your Game/Beck - Where It's At)
• Grange Hill Grammar (Nelly - Country Grammar/Theme From Grange Hill)
• We Dont Give A Damn About Our Friends (Adina Howard - Freak Like Me/Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?)
• I Wanna Dance With Numbers (Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody/Kraftwerk - Numbers/Computer World)

on the Steve Baller smash-hit Developers Developers Developers Developers, Developers Developers Developers Developers!

I found these reviews for Building blocks of the universe and Search for the elements

-Dracken

I found these reviews for Building blocks of the universe and Search for the elements

-Dracken

There is a TIFF version which I didn't opt to download (too big), but here is one of the full size images in jpg format. It's 3690x3743. I grabbed this one from the official web site earlier today. I, like others no doubt, can't get there now, so I figured others might like a way to get at at least one full rez picture....

they've been doing this for years - look at this

I'm absolutely amazed that you opened your mouth and this kind of craptacular nonesense flooded out. I noticed that you've got a bit of a high userid and a penchant for buggery, but I'm still simply amazed.

I think it's time you cracked out the old brainbox and did a bit of a grep on your reality. If you'd had a minute tiny little itty-bitty clue, you would know that the company called "Apple Computer" was formed by a whacky couple of teenagers who shared the name "Steve".

Now that you've clued yourself in, I'm sure that you're feeling like a real smart cookie... why don't you go back to your sandbox and grab your toys and go home because no one is interested in listening to your stupid childish ranting.

Actually, the name and the whole bunny thing remind me of Glenda Adams.

Mac OS X users should check out SlashDock, which is also free and has similar functionality. It sits in the dock and polls the XML feeds of the sites you select (you can add new ones too), and flashes the icons of new stories when they appear.

If you own a macintosh, just sign up for iTools. You get 20mb free space with few restrictions.

Here's a PDF mirror just in case of /.-ing:

TheNextGeneration.pdf

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged -- people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. -- Ted Nelson

SWISH++ (my search engine) specifically knows to index mail/news files (including text, HTML, RTF, LaTeX files) and attachments of any of those (in quoted-printable or base64 encodings). It can also index any other kind of attachment via external filter programs. A procmail recipe for auto-splitting incoming mail is included in the distro. I also believe that my statement of SWISH++ being the fastest open-source indexer is accurate.

There's always the open source alternative called Octave. It doesn't even require a license server, something I hate about matlab.

I somehow knew that stuff wouldn't be up very long, so I saved the source and managed to put copies up here and here

apparently, it's also available by google cache... the CSS is busted up and you'll get a stupid pop-up window, too ... but i just opted to keep every byte of that file as it was when i saved it from the site to my hard drive! hahaha

in any case, it really is funny; enjoy.

Behold... the author of this piece is not what he appears... watch this.

Make sure you watch long enough to catch the "daemon" running around in the background. :^)

--Rick

http://www.spinwave.com/crunchers.html is a great free website that can compress your JPEGs (and GIFs)...I use it all the time for the images on my site.

Orange

A non ATSUI version can be found at Riscky Workings. Non ATSUI Mach-O is faster.

The first thing to do is learn how to build Mozilla under Mac OS X... it's rather a bitch, but well documented here. (Actually, it's a bitch to build under Linux too, and that's the easiest platform to build on.) Then apply the ATSUI rendering patch attached to bug 121540 (sorry, can't link to bugzilla from slashdot) and rebuild. Voila! As far as I can see, it looks like it may already be in the nightlies though, and possibly even in 1.0RC1... I haven't looked yet :-). If you find that it's not, I recommend grabbing the build from stevek's iDisk. It's a lot easier than building it if you're not already building mozilla. (I was, for other reasons. Quartz was a nice extra perk.)

As for leaving out all the composer and mail junk, I don't know of a way to do that. However, current builds of chimera are fast, have quartz rendering compiled in, and are browser only. As a bonus, it's got a nice native cocoa interface that gets better and better with every build. It's still got some bugs, but I find it pretty usable.

Hope this helps!

The reason is that OmniWeb has anti-aliased text.

I've found
a build of Mozilla that uses it, but
it's very buggy, relative to the normal build.

The Mach-O version of Mozilla (which uses the Unix backend and Carbon frontend) flies on my Powerbook G4/400. With ATSUI text rendering it looks great. When the developers turn their attention to the Mach-O build and whip it into shape it'll be my browser of choice. Check out an experimental Mach-O build here: http://homepage.mac.com/stevekstevek/
and here's a screenshot of the Mach-O build running the Pinstripe theme.

The Mach-O version of Mozilla (which uses the Unix backend and Carbon frontend) flies on my Powerbook G4/400. With ATSUI text rendering it looks great. When the developers turn their attention to the Mach-O build and whip it into shape it'll be my browser of choice. Check out an experimental Mach-O build here: http://homepage.mac.com/stevekstevek/
and here's a screenshot of the Mach-O build running the Pinstripe theme.

The Mach-O version of Mozilla (which uses the Unix backend and Carbon frontend) flies on my Powerbook G4/400. With ATSUI text rendering it looks great. When the developers turn their attention to the Mach-O build and whip it into shape it'll be my browser of choice. Check out an experimental Mach-O build here: http://homepage.mac.com/stevekstevek/
and here's a screenshot of the Mach-O build running the Pinstripe theme.

I think the point being made is- there's nothing new here, so cool is a big stretch. "Catches up" would have been a better phrase.

I do question some of his statements, however, particularly about human creativity:

Now it seems we face a curious Malthusian catastrophe of the information economy: The products of human creativity grow only arithmetically, whereas the capacity to store and distribute them increases geometrically. The human imagination can't keep up.

Or maybe it's only my imagination that can't keep up.

I'd say that the bolded part above is very likely. He states that he individually can't think of what to do with 120 TB, but collectively I'm confident we'll find a use for it. I've read through a dozen posts already where we've come up with some suggestions for use. Not to be critical or anything, but the surface has barely been scratched. It's not going to be all about data warehouses, streamable content, and how many dvd movies we can rip. Tell the whole world that 120 TB is available for storage, and a variety of uses will come up.

I'm pretty convinced that the actual consumer use of 120 TB will be for something that, if suggested now, we'll all laugh at and ask why the hell we'd want to pursue such an insane idea. For instance, the article mentioned mounting tiny cameras on eyeglasses to document one's whole life. The article also mentions home digital media hubs. Both are probably uses, but I actually think they are rather conservative ideas in the grand scheme of things. A successful idea now to think of an interesting and probably use of that much space in the future is more likely to come out of the mouth of some random guy while intermittently taking puffs out of a giant bong than any mature, prominent engineer.

Then again, some founders of successful companies were allegedly (I don't have any factual evidence) pretty fond of the herb.

Or a used Mac for even less... I think it's cool that a computer hardware manufacturer offers such a nice email address for free.

Sort of OT:
It's pretty funny how if you try to sign up for an iTools service on a non-Mac computer, you get this page offering to sell you a Mac... :)

To paraphrase :

"Mozilla Mozilla Mozilla Mozilla Mozilla Mozilla..."

"I...Love...This...Company YEAHHHH!"

more mirrors... heh, why only slash the main site and normal mirror?
homepage.mac.com/macnnadmins/.Pictures/unixad.jpg
www.osuweb.net/~ahaning/unixad.jpg
www2.def-con.org/images/unixad.jpg

DigiTunnel

PiePants

Using the classic theme, or better yet, pinstripe, mozilla fits in quite nicely.

As for iTunes management, that's only if you have it be the primary machine. You can move music around without having to have it on the machine first.

Go to MetaMage.com and get EscapePod to move mp3s off the iPod to iTunes.

Or, get iPod Free File Sync...

Or, get PodMaster...

So, there are a range of options you haven't tried to make managing your music a little more flexible.

http://homepage.mac.com/gsf/celinesucks.jpg

oh wait... never mind.. i misread the article.. i thought it said that they WANTED to see it all over the internet freely available...

my bad.. sorry.

What this guy did, he used Virtual PC with Windows XP. He let the registration period run out on XP, so it said that he had to either register or shut down (I think, I don't own XP). So he clicked shutdown, and it caused a kernel panic.

I know this may be a tad offtopic (PLEASE DO NOT MODERATE AT ALL), but there is an interesting funny "flying car" video here. It is written by Kevin Smith (Mallrats, Clerks, etc.) and it features the guys from Clerks.

including the Web, Byte and others, I’ve written down in Portuguese. I’ve already got a very bad translation into English, am looking for confirmation about the exact relationship between Mach and NT before I do a proper revision of the English version.

including the Web, Byte and others, I’ve written down in Portuguese. I’ve already got a very bad translation into English, am looking for confirmation about the exact relationship between Mach and NT before I do a proper revision of the English version.

I hacked together a little Cocoa app that allows storing arbitrary text files in the Contacts directory (not just business cards from Entourage and Mail). Get it, try it, send me feedback.

um - BULLSHIT.

Well all I can say is I've rarely had problems. Last weekend there was an email outtage but that was the first I've ever noticed. As for the rest of it I've not heard of another free & advertising free host with the space, speed & services of mac.com. Your other examples all add taglines, require web interfaces, inserts ads, etc.

Heck check out Internet Help Desk video (QT & WMP) and tell me any other free service would offer this unlimited bandwidth?

um - BULLSHIT.

Well all I can say is I've rarely had problems. Last weekend there was an email outtage but that was the first I've ever noticed. As for the rest of it I've not heard of another free & advertising free host with the space, speed & services of mac.com. Your other examples all add taglines, require web interfaces, inserts ads, etc.

Heck check out Internet Help Desk video (QT & WMP) and tell me any other free service would offer this unlimited bandwidth?

The only requirement is that one use a Mac (or Mac-claiming browser) to set up the account; it's at Mac.com. That said aside from certain administrative functions it works perfectly well from the Wintel & *nix sides too. Mail, web serving, WebDAV all are platform independent, indeed MS Windows 2K & XP include WebDAV clients that work perfectly with Apple's iDisk service.

From previous slashdot, why not use lego! Somebody's done it for a DAT tape and a CD changer for parties , the link from slashdot article is now broke, but it was way cool.

Pulp iPod

YUM!

Fortunately, you can tell a programmer's personality type by the code they write - it is all explained in this paper by Kevin Marks & Maf Vosburgh

There are various types of programmers around. We've certainly worked with a wide selection. Over the years, we've come to realize that programmers can be divided into various "personality types". You don't stay the same personality-type your whole life though -- as you develop and learn, your approach to programming changes and that change is visible in your code. We're going to look at various functions and how programmers with different personalities would write them.

MacHack attendees have normally been around the block a few times. That means they have learnt various things, like when you're going around the block, it helps to watch where you're going, and be driving a tank. We know that a function has important responsibilities. It needs to check every error code, keep track of every byte it allocates, and that function needs to know how to cope with anything that happens, cleaning up perfectly after itself and returning an error code which explains what went wrong. But in order to write code like this you have to have made mistakes and learned from them. We know we have...

What I wouldn't give to see Gates or Ballmer crack while on the stand.

Of course, if Ballmer cracks, he might just do the Monkey Dance on the stand. Now, I'd pay real money to see that!

There is also an alternative server and viewer. Theres a few viewers linked from the last link.