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MacHack Keynote By Curses Developer Ken Arnold

Posted by timothy on from the not-that-other-ken-arnold dept.

Porsupah writes "A look at this year's MacHack keynote, from the MacFixIt folks. This year the opening keynote speaker was Ken Arnold [...] a member of the BSD team at the University of California at Berkeley and developed the curses library. [...] At Sun Microsystems, Ken was an original architect of the Jini platform."

4 of 21 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What's there to hack? by rsmith-mac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sorry to go slightly off-topic here, but the MacHack guys are not doing anyone a favor by creating GLCheat for OS X. As a Windows gamer, we already have to deal with enough problems of people using such cheats in games(CS comes to mind first and foremost), so it's not very pleasing to see that now the Mac guys have to worry about such cheating going on in their games either(while Q3, Jedi Knight, etc are multi-platform, OS X still has games that are platform locked, and up until now, GLCheat free). Some of the hacks turned out are indeed impressive, but please hack responsibly guys; GLCheat is not doing anyone any favors.

  2. Popular topic by danrees · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Wow, it really looks like a lot of people are interested in what this guy has to say by the look of this thread. :p

  3. Re:MacHack 18 by laredo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This sounds like a neat hack, a Jini based mood ring
    http://www.x180.net/Blog/index.html

  4. No Rogue mention? by Mogomra · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Jini platform, Schmini platform. Ken Arnold helped develop Rogue, and if that's not a worthwhile contribution to the human race worth mentioning, I don't know what is.