I think people feel OS X is slow because of the GUI. most code executes quickly, esp command line stuff and photoshop. But the click and the machine jumps feel just isn't there. You get used to it.
I have a bunch of CD's and cassetes from good bands that you can no longer buy (many of these bands no longer exist). I've put some of them on my computer as mp3. For the cassete ones you can STILL put it into mp3 format. It takes more work and time. But honestly the quality is super.
I've also taken concert mp3 and put them on minidisc. Analog. Again it sounds fine.
I do use the fiber cable to take cds-> mini-disc. I don't think the copy prevention stops that.
No matter how they try, it's difficult to stop us from using the music we buy the way we like to, especially audio. I think they should concentrate on those that republish copywrited work and stop worrying about those that are still buying product.
Microsoft gets away with it. Just like they always do. Huge political contributions and a new administration taking over the white house probably didn't hurt. It sucks.
But seriously enough whining.
Linux/Unix/macos X are better than window. Really. I can't imagine programming/working on anything else but a unix based box right now. I don't miss windows at all.
Some of this Open source software is simply amazingly powerful. I downloaded fink (app-get for os-x) a couple days ago. Amazing how simple to install emacs, imagemagik and other open source goodies using fink. I was blown away.
There are tons of open-source programs that are simply the best stuff out there, Apache, perl, samba....
There is still lots of work to be done. Consider helping. Buy a naked pc, install linux/bsd. But a mac, install X, help port open source to it. Help out some projects, even start your own. Set up a linux server at work. Write some documentation that makes things clearer to those learning.
Sometimes opensource spawns rivalries. BSD vs Linux, KDE vs. Gnome. In someways this is bad, "competion is good", but confuses. These flame wars can become bitter and tiresome. Better solutions will be found and implimented and that is a great thing.
keep coding, keep thinking, keep using and keep giving back.
google still seems the best. Sometimes I use teoma or lycos because they give different top results. Being tied to one search engine seems bad as you miss alot.
I had an instructor point us to a page on networking that was amazing good but not found on any of those 3 search engines, at least in the top 30. Most of those top 30 hits wern't very good either.
Maybe yahoo has it right, The web should be indexed by people.
I have a higher end scanner (powerlook 3000) It allows you to do multiple scans in one pass. ie you preview
you box all the pictures
you click scan
you can adjust each box color/exposure separate. it scans each image as a separate file. Of course you have to preview each image which takes times.
You could write some software to do it. It might help to use a background matt of a consistant color though.
I think you really should consider scaning only images you care about and adjusting each one individually. If you really care about your images get a negative scanner. Scanning negatives is far far fat better than scanning prints.
When I lived in NY I used to take a lot of pictures of the city, many of the towers. I pullws them together a month after the tragedy in a web photo gallery. It didn't feel right to post them to my site, so I didn't. The photos seemed more about the towers rather than the people that perished which made me uncomfortable. As time passed the pictures came to meen less and less about the tragedy and more about the human spirit that allows us to builid amazing things and go on even after a tragedy of this magnitude.
The book is called Physics for poets. Its a good intoduction, yet advanced enough to be used as a university text in a physics for liberal arts majors. Its comparatively inexpensive,
I like mmy serway college physics text though, its more difficult but has interesting "real world" physics examples.
I think you mean should_have_to_include java in ie. Well they signed an agreement saying they would, back in the day when IE was competing with Netscape and having a java enabled java was an advantage.
Great, So I have to buy a 2500$+ g4 ti book to get a higher resolution than the screen? I actually like my ibook's small size over the bigger ti book.
that my cheapy 200 mhz PC notebook with a simple fn f2 could toggle the internal screen on/off. With the screen off and a external monitor set up I could change the resolution of the monitor to greater than that of the computer.. Why can't the ibook do this?
Apple seems to have made the consumer models non-spanning (imac,emac, ibook). If you look at the specs of the models on apple's web page it says mirroring only.
IThe ibook doesn't allow spanning AND you can't increase the resolution on an external monitor past what the ibooks flat panel is. It's a great little portable machine, but lowsy if you can only run the 19"inch monitor at the same resolution as the flat panel.
I like apple, but intentionally hobbling there machines like this is inexcusable. I won't buy a new one until they change there ways.
If you have a medium format camera with interchangeable backs, they sell digital versions.
Medium format cameras (6x6,6x7 etc) are much more expensive than 35 mm ones but were designed to take different backs. The larger size negative means more megapixels.
However those backs are very expensive.
As cameras become more computer like they seem to also to be coming more disposable
I got some strange error... But hit back arrow and the article came up..
here it is: On Rendezvous, TiVo, and Parliamentary Titles
An Exclusive Interview with Stuart Cheshire
Wizard Without Portfolio at Apple Computer & Chairman of IETF ZEROCONF
Soon after publishing my article entitled Rendezvous: It's Like a Backstage Pass to the Future, an e-mail appeared in my Inbox from some guy named Stuart
who was very supportive and helped me gain further understanding of a few aspects of the Rendezvous technology. It wasn't until I got to the bottom of
his e-mail when I noticed his signature. Ha! No wonder he knew so much about Rendezvous - he was Chairman of the ZEROCONF Working Group and was
employed at Apple! After exchanging a couple of e-mails back and forth, I asked him if I could interview him during Macworld, and to my delight, he agreed.
Stuart has been involved in a slew of computer science projects for the past number of years. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at
Stanford University, and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, U.K. You can learn more about his background from his
Web site. One of his overriding goals is to make IP networking easier to manage and better suited for use with various kinds of computing devices, which is
why he has been so instrumental in getting IETF ZEROCONF off the ground.
Jared: Thanks very much for agreeing to this interview in spite of your busy schedule and travel arrangements. You're actually in Japan at the moment, correct?
Stuart: That's right. I'm in Japan for the week-long IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) meeting. The IETF does most of its work via email, but three times a year we get together
for face-to-face discussion. Generally two out of three meetings are in the United States, but the Internet is a worldwide phenomenon, not just an American thing, so usually at least
one meeting a year is outside the USA.
At this minute I'm sitting in the IPv6 Working Group meeting with my PowerBook, answering your questions via AirPort.
Very cool! Now the ZEROCONF Working Group that is part of the IETF is responsible for developing and maintaining the open-standard Zeroconf networking protocols,
dubbed Rendezvous by Apple. Can you give us a brief overview of these protocols and the history behind them?
The initial seeds of Zeroconf started in a Macintosh network programmers' mailing list called net-thinkers, back in 1997 when I was still a PhD student at Stanford. We were
discussing the poor state of ease-of-use for IP networking, particularly the lack of any equivalent to the old AppleTalk Chooser for browsing for services. I proposed that part of the
solution might be simply to layer the existing AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol (NBP) over UDP Multicast.
At the Orlando IETF meeting in December 1998 I discussed this idea with other people, and the following suggestion was made: trying to introduce an AppleTalk protocol into the
IETF would not be easily accepted, but perhaps the existing IETF DNS packet format is semantically rich enough to hold exactly the same information as I proposed putting into an
NBP/IP packet. I agreed with this suggestion - there's no need to invent a new IETF packet format just for the sake of it, if there's an existing packet format that can do the job
perfectly well.
The IETF is generally populated by people who care very little for ease-of-use, but the Area Directors of the Internet Area were sufficiently far-sighted that they believed that
improving ease-of-use should be an important priority for the IETF, even though that was very much a minority view back than. Even today, it remains a something of a minority
view in the IETF. Most IETF people work for router vendors, ISPs, backbone providers, telephone companies, etc., and their focus is wide-area networking. If you work for a
company that makes routers, you've not going to be very excited about technology that lets computers communicate directly, without needing a router. If you work for a company
that sells a DHCP server, you've not going to be very excited about technology that lets computers communicate without needing a DHCP server. If you work for a company that
sells DNS servers, you've not going to be very excited about technology that lets computers communicate without needing a DNS server. I'm sure you get the point.
Despite this lack of general enthusiasm, the Area Directors went ahead and arranged a preliminary "Birds of a Feather" session (BOF) to discuss these issues, under the name
"Networking in the Small" (NITS). We had two NITS BOF meetings, in March and July of 1999. Peter Ford from Microsoft helped me co-chair those meetings, and we gathered
enough interest to warrant the formation of an official IETF Working Group, under the new name "Zero Configuration Networking", in September 1999. At that time, Erik Guttman
from Sun volunteered to co-chair the new Zeroconf working group with me, and he has been invaluable in helping keep the work on-track and moving forward for all this time.
The Zeroconf working group identified four requirements for "Zero Configuration Networking":
1. Devices need an IP address.
2. Users need to be able to refer to hosts by name, not by address.
3. Users need to be able to browse to find services on the network.
4. Future applications will need to be able to allocate multicast addresses.
IPv6 already has self-assigned link-local addresses, but IPv4 did not, so we produced a specification for how IPv4 devices can obtain self-assigned link-local addresses.
For name lookup, we have general agreement that DNS-format packets sent via IP Multicast are the right solution.
For browsing, I worked out how to do the thing that was suggested to me back in 1998, and wrote a draft called "Discovering Named Instances of Abstract Services using DNS"
(draft-cheshire-dnsext-nias-00.txt) which specifies how to do network browsing using just DNS-format query and response packets.
These specifications provide what we need to make dramatic ease-of-use improvements for local IP networking. However, these solutions do remain controversial with some IETF
participants. Although Apple is already shipping Rendezvous, we are continuing to work in the IETF Zeroconf Working Group to continue the ongoing development of these
protocols. Apple's intent is that as the protocol specifications continue to improve as a result of helpful intelligent discussion in the IETF community, we will be updating our
Rendezvous implementation to benefit from those improvements. This is a fairly normal state of affairs - most communications protocols continue to evolve and improve over time,
and good companies have an ongoing process of updating their implementations to benefit from those improvements.
Speaking of Apple, in addition to your role as Chairman for the ZEROCONF Working Group, you are also Wizard Without Portfolio at Apple Computer. I confess I have
no idea what that means, so what exactly is it that you do at Apple?
It is a pun on the British parliamentary title, "Minister Without Portfolio", which is like "Senator at Large" in the USA, meaning someone with general responsibilities, not restricted to
one particular area. For me, what it means is that I try to make sure I'm always looking at the big picture, not limiting my thinking to one particular narrow field.
Ah, I see. Steve Jobs at the Macworld keynote yesterday gave Rendezvous a significant spotlight during his Jaguar presentation. In particular, he demonstrated the
integration of Rendezvous into iChat, iTunes, and several network printers soon to be released by Epson, HP, and Lexmark. This definitely proves that Rendezvous is
just as useful for bringing plug-and-play, zero-configuration networking services to software and hardware devices as it is useful for networking computers
themselves. Can you elaborate further on what kind of functionality Rendezvous brings to software and hardware devices that simply hasn't been possible in the past?
I can't comment on specific Apple product plans, but I think you had some very interesting ideas in your "Backstage Pass to the Future" article. Rendezvous is not just about making
current networked devices easier to use. It is also about making it viable to put networking (i.e. Ethernet) on devices that today use USB or Firewire, and it is also about making it
viable to use networking in areas that you wouldn't have even considered before Rendezvous. Imagine a future world where you connect your television and amplifier and DVD player
with just a couple of Ethernet cables, instead of today's spaghetti mess of composite video, S-Video, component video, stereo audio, 5.1 Dolby, Toslink optical audio cables, etc.
One of my favorite examples that I've been giving since the early days of Zeroconf is this: I have friends who have bought a TiVo Personal Video Recorder, and then liked it so much
that they bought a second TiVo for the television in the bedroom. Now what is the problem? At night they turn on the bedroom television to watch a recorded episode of Seinfeld
before they go to sleep, but they can't because it is recorded on the other TiVo. Imagine if any TiVo in your house could automatically discover and play content recorded on any other
TiVo in your house. Sadly, I'm not aware of anyone from TiVo participating on the Zeroconf mailing list, so it may be a long time before we see anything like this, but I think you'll agree
this would be a very cool product.
So you would say Rendezvous delivers almost FireWire-like ease of use for networked devices?
I would go further than that. My long-term goal, from before I even started at Apple, is to eliminate the need for disparate incompatible technologies on your computer. Right now
your computer may have SCSI, Serial, IrDA, Bluetooth, USB, Firewire, Ethernet and AirPort, all communication technologies that each work a different way.
My hope is that in the future - distant future perhaps - your computer will only need one wired communication technology. It will provide power on the connector like USB and
FireWire, so it can power small peripheral devices. It will use IP packets like Ethernet, so it provides your wide-area communications for things like email and Web browsing, but it will
also use Zeroconf IP so that connecting local devices is as easy as USB or FireWire is today. People ask me if I'm seriously suggesting that your keyboard and mouse should use the
same connector as your Internet connection, and I am. There's no fundamental reason why a 10Mb/s Ethernet chip costs more than a USB chip. The problem is not cost, it is lack of
power on the Ethernet connector, and (until now) lack of autoconfiguration to make it work. I would much rather have a computer with a row of identical universal IP communications
ports, where I can connect anything I want to any port, instead of today's situation where the computer has a row of different sockets, each dedicated to its own specialized
function.
Well it sounds like you're working on some wonderful ideas and technologies there, and I'm very excited to see Apple adopting Rendezvous so readily for Jaguar. I'm
certain this will prove to be an important milestone in the evolution of networked computing. Stuart, thanks again for being here, and I wish you the best of luck in your
dual roles as ZEROCONF Chairman and Wizard Without Portfolio at Apple!
you make a good point.. Does the show happen if apple doesn't show up (doesn't apple hire IDG to run it>\?) Mac FixIt is definetly a legit site and show have access. Apple is being out of line..
It's there show.. If they think your publication doesn't reach enough people or meet there criteria they don't give you a pass.
It used to be circulation was used (you print and distribute so many copies...), but with the web it's cheap to publish, so everyone with a web site probably wants press credentials..
Internet radio is different than regular radio in that you know exactly how many listeners you have. It seems the rates are per song.. and they're the same for commercial and non-commercial..
And existing radio stations will pay more to replay their broadcasts too.
You Knew this was comming, most cd's tell you public performance is prohibited, now webcasting is officially public performance
The decordova museum in MA had a video game exhibit in the 80's (abiet a long time ago). Back when games were games. THey had atari 2600, intellivision and coleco vision all playing donkey kong. THe had a lot of stand up machines too, asteroids, ms. pac man etc. They took tokens they sold at the front desk, except Zaxxon which was free. Went there a couple days after school when there were no crouds... Kick'n.
We had 8 bit color and mono sound back then, none of these fancy shmancy 3d cards they have now...It was amazing what they could get out of that hardware!
Slashdot Mirror
MS probably will make up the money by charging Sony's Computer division high windows licensing fee..
So Sony competes with MS but yet bundles MS products with their computers.
MS isn't a Monoply.. Really...
I think the apple magazine your thinking of was "Nibble". It was an apple ][+ //e programming magazine. Lots of basic and some hex code.
I don't remeber the bar codes though, I remeber they sold the programs in the magazine on floppy if you didn't want to type them in.
I think people feel OS X is slow because of the GUI. most code executes quickly, esp command line stuff and photoshop. But the click and the machine jumps feel just isn't there. You get used to it.
I have a bunch of CD's and cassetes from good bands that you can no longer buy (many of these bands no longer exist). I've put some of them on my computer as mp3. For the cassete ones you can STILL put it into mp3 format. It takes more work and time. But honestly the quality is super.
I've also taken concert mp3 and put them on minidisc. Analog. Again it sounds fine.
I do use the fiber cable to take cds-> mini-disc. I don't think the copy prevention stops that.
No matter how they try, it's difficult to stop us from using the music we buy the way we like to, especially audio. I think they should concentrate on those that republish copywrited work and stop worrying about those that are still buying product.
Microsoft gets away with it. Just like they always do. Huge political contributions and a new administration taking over the white house probably didn't hurt. It sucks.
But seriously enough whining.
Linux/Unix/macos X are better than window. Really. I can't imagine programming/working on anything else but a unix based box right now. I don't miss windows at all.
Some of this Open source software is simply amazingly powerful. I downloaded fink (app-get for os-x) a couple days ago. Amazing how simple to install emacs, imagemagik and other open source goodies using fink. I was blown away.
There are tons of open-source programs that are simply the best stuff out there, Apache, perl, samba....
There is still lots of work to be done. Consider helping. Buy a naked pc, install linux/bsd. But a mac, install X, help port open source to it. Help out some projects, even start your own. Set up a linux server at work. Write some documentation that makes things clearer to those learning.
Sometimes opensource spawns rivalries. BSD vs Linux, KDE vs. Gnome. In someways this is bad, "competion is good", but confuses. These flame wars can become bitter and tiresome. Better solutions will be found and implimented and that is a great thing.
keep coding, keep thinking, keep using and keep giving back.
Nothing... I was just happy the rumors that I had heard about bash being included were true
Bash shell is included in 10.2
[Computer:~] acomjean% bash
bash-2.05a$ yes
y
y
y
y
y
ascap (american society of composers and authors) does some of the tracking for authors.
google still seems the best. Sometimes I use teoma or lycos because they give different top results. Being tied to one search engine seems bad as you miss alot.
I had an instructor point us to a page on networking that was amazing good but not found on any of those 3 search engines, at least in the top 30. Most of those top 30 hits wern't very good either.
Maybe yahoo has it right, The web should be indexed by people.
This is completely off topics
but I still miss that site...
It reminded me of NY since I've moved away.
I have a higher end scanner (powerlook 3000) It allows you to do multiple scans in one pass.
ie you preview
you box all the pictures
you click scan
you can adjust each box color/exposure separate.
it scans each image as a separate file. Of course you have to preview each image which takes times.
You could write some software to do it. It might help to use a background matt of a consistant color though.
I think you really should consider scaning only images you care about and adjusting each one individually. If you really care about your images get a negative scanner. Scanning negatives is far far fat better than scanning prints.
Where are Ponds and Fliechman now those 2 model physicists who discovered cold fusion..
On the plus side the system seems to work. Those that fake it are found out
sorry about that
here Is New York.org
My photos are here
also Here is New York has many good photos as well.
The book is called Physics for poets. Its a good intoduction, yet advanced enough to be used as a university text in a physics for liberal arts majors. Its comparatively inexpensive,
I like mmy serway college physics text though, its more difficult but has interesting "real world" physics examples.
I think you mean should_have_to_include java in ie.
Well they signed an agreement saying they would, back in the day when IE was competing with Netscape and having a java enabled java was an advantage.
Great, So I have to buy a 2500$+ g4 ti book to get a higher resolution than the screen? I actually like my ibook's small size over the bigger ti book.
/off. With the screen off and a external monitor set up I could change the resolution of the monitor to greater than that of the computer.. Why can't the ibook do this?
that my cheapy 200 mhz PC notebook with a simple fn f2 could toggle the internal screen on
Apple seems to have made the consumer models non-spanning (imac,emac, ibook). If you look at the specs of the models on apple's web page it says mirroring only.
IThe ibook doesn't allow spanning AND you can't increase the resolution on an external monitor past what the ibooks flat panel is. It's a great little portable machine, but lowsy if you can only run the 19"inch monitor at the same resolution as the flat panel.
I like apple, but intentionally hobbling there machines like this is inexcusable. I won't buy a new one until they change there ways.
If you have a medium format camera with interchangeable backs, they sell digital versions.
,6x7 etc) are much more expensive than 35 mm ones but were designed to take different backs. The larger size negative means more megapixels.
Medium format cameras (6x6
However those backs are very expensive.
As cameras become more computer like they seem to also to be coming more disposable
I got some strange error... But hit back arrow and the article came up..
here it is:
On Rendezvous, TiVo, and Parliamentary Titles
An Exclusive Interview with Stuart Cheshire
Wizard Without Portfolio at Apple Computer & Chairman of IETF ZEROCONF
Soon after publishing my article entitled Rendezvous: It's Like a Backstage Pass to the Future, an e-mail appeared in my Inbox from some guy named Stuart
who was very supportive and helped me gain further understanding of a few aspects of the Rendezvous technology. It wasn't until I got to the bottom of
his e-mail when I noticed his signature. Ha! No wonder he knew so much about Rendezvous - he was Chairman of the ZEROCONF Working Group and was
employed at Apple! After exchanging a couple of e-mails back and forth, I asked him if I could interview him during Macworld, and to my delight, he agreed.
Stuart has been involved in a slew of computer science projects for the past number of years. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at
Stanford University, and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, U.K. You can learn more about his background from his
Web site. One of his overriding goals is to make IP networking easier to manage and better suited for use with various kinds of computing devices, which is
why he has been so instrumental in getting IETF ZEROCONF off the ground.
Jared: Thanks very much for agreeing to this interview in spite of your busy schedule and travel arrangements. You're actually in Japan at the moment, correct?
Stuart: That's right. I'm in Japan for the week-long IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) meeting. The IETF does most of its work via email, but three times a year we get together
for face-to-face discussion. Generally two out of three meetings are in the United States, but the Internet is a worldwide phenomenon, not just an American thing, so usually at least
one meeting a year is outside the USA.
At this minute I'm sitting in the IPv6 Working Group meeting with my PowerBook, answering your questions via AirPort.
Very cool! Now the ZEROCONF Working Group that is part of the IETF is responsible for developing and maintaining the open-standard Zeroconf networking protocols,
dubbed Rendezvous by Apple. Can you give us a brief overview of these protocols and the history behind them?
The initial seeds of Zeroconf started in a Macintosh network programmers' mailing list called net-thinkers, back in 1997 when I was still a PhD student at Stanford. We were
discussing the poor state of ease-of-use for IP networking, particularly the lack of any equivalent to the old AppleTalk Chooser for browsing for services. I proposed that part of the
solution might be simply to layer the existing AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol (NBP) over UDP Multicast.
At the Orlando IETF meeting in December 1998 I discussed this idea with other people, and the following suggestion was made: trying to introduce an AppleTalk protocol into the
IETF would not be easily accepted, but perhaps the existing IETF DNS packet format is semantically rich enough to hold exactly the same information as I proposed putting into an
NBP/IP packet. I agreed with this suggestion - there's no need to invent a new IETF packet format just for the sake of it, if there's an existing packet format that can do the job
perfectly well.
The IETF is generally populated by people who care very little for ease-of-use, but the Area Directors of the Internet Area were sufficiently far-sighted that they believed that
improving ease-of-use should be an important priority for the IETF, even though that was very much a minority view back than. Even today, it remains a something of a minority
view in the IETF. Most IETF people work for router vendors, ISPs, backbone providers, telephone companies, etc., and their focus is wide-area networking. If you work for a
company that makes routers, you've not going to be very excited about technology that lets computers communicate directly, without needing a router. If you work for a company
that sells a DHCP server, you've not going to be very excited about technology that lets computers communicate without needing a DHCP server. If you work for a company that
sells DNS servers, you've not going to be very excited about technology that lets computers communicate without needing a DNS server. I'm sure you get the point.
Despite this lack of general enthusiasm, the Area Directors went ahead and arranged a preliminary "Birds of a Feather" session (BOF) to discuss these issues, under the name
"Networking in the Small" (NITS). We had two NITS BOF meetings, in March and July of 1999. Peter Ford from Microsoft helped me co-chair those meetings, and we gathered
enough interest to warrant the formation of an official IETF Working Group, under the new name "Zero Configuration Networking", in September 1999. At that time, Erik Guttman
from Sun volunteered to co-chair the new Zeroconf working group with me, and he has been invaluable in helping keep the work on-track and moving forward for all this time.
The Zeroconf working group identified four requirements for "Zero Configuration Networking":
1. Devices need an IP address.
2. Users need to be able to refer to hosts by name, not by address.
3. Users need to be able to browse to find services on the network.
4. Future applications will need to be able to allocate multicast addresses.
IPv6 already has self-assigned link-local addresses, but IPv4 did not, so we produced a specification for how IPv4 devices can obtain self-assigned link-local addresses.
For name lookup, we have general agreement that DNS-format packets sent via IP Multicast are the right solution.
For browsing, I worked out how to do the thing that was suggested to me back in 1998, and wrote a draft called "Discovering Named Instances of Abstract Services using DNS"
(draft-cheshire-dnsext-nias-00.txt) which specifies how to do network browsing using just DNS-format query and response packets.
These specifications provide what we need to make dramatic ease-of-use improvements for local IP networking. However, these solutions do remain controversial with some IETF
participants. Although Apple is already shipping Rendezvous, we are continuing to work in the IETF Zeroconf Working Group to continue the ongoing development of these
protocols. Apple's intent is that as the protocol specifications continue to improve as a result of helpful intelligent discussion in the IETF community, we will be updating our
Rendezvous implementation to benefit from those improvements. This is a fairly normal state of affairs - most communications protocols continue to evolve and improve over time,
and good companies have an ongoing process of updating their implementations to benefit from those improvements.
Speaking of Apple, in addition to your role as Chairman for the ZEROCONF Working Group, you are also Wizard Without Portfolio at Apple Computer. I confess I have
no idea what that means, so what exactly is it that you do at Apple?
It is a pun on the British parliamentary title, "Minister Without Portfolio", which is like "Senator at Large" in the USA, meaning someone with general responsibilities, not restricted to
one particular area. For me, what it means is that I try to make sure I'm always looking at the big picture, not limiting my thinking to one particular narrow field.
Ah, I see. Steve Jobs at the Macworld keynote yesterday gave Rendezvous a significant spotlight during his Jaguar presentation. In particular, he demonstrated the
integration of Rendezvous into iChat, iTunes, and several network printers soon to be released by Epson, HP, and Lexmark. This definitely proves that Rendezvous is
just as useful for bringing plug-and-play, zero-configuration networking services to software and hardware devices as it is useful for networking computers
themselves. Can you elaborate further on what kind of functionality Rendezvous brings to software and hardware devices that simply hasn't been possible in the past?
I can't comment on specific Apple product plans, but I think you had some very interesting ideas in your "Backstage Pass to the Future" article. Rendezvous is not just about making
current networked devices easier to use. It is also about making it viable to put networking (i.e. Ethernet) on devices that today use USB or Firewire, and it is also about making it
viable to use networking in areas that you wouldn't have even considered before Rendezvous. Imagine a future world where you connect your television and amplifier and DVD player
with just a couple of Ethernet cables, instead of today's spaghetti mess of composite video, S-Video, component video, stereo audio, 5.1 Dolby, Toslink optical audio cables, etc.
One of my favorite examples that I've been giving since the early days of Zeroconf is this: I have friends who have bought a TiVo Personal Video Recorder, and then liked it so much
that they bought a second TiVo for the television in the bedroom. Now what is the problem? At night they turn on the bedroom television to watch a recorded episode of Seinfeld
before they go to sleep, but they can't because it is recorded on the other TiVo. Imagine if any TiVo in your house could automatically discover and play content recorded on any other
TiVo in your house. Sadly, I'm not aware of anyone from TiVo participating on the Zeroconf mailing list, so it may be a long time before we see anything like this, but I think you'll agree
this would be a very cool product.
So you would say Rendezvous delivers almost FireWire-like ease of use for networked devices?
I would go further than that. My long-term goal, from before I even started at Apple, is to eliminate the need for disparate incompatible technologies on your computer. Right now
your computer may have SCSI, Serial, IrDA, Bluetooth, USB, Firewire, Ethernet and AirPort, all communication technologies that each work a different way.
My hope is that in the future - distant future perhaps - your computer will only need one wired communication technology. It will provide power on the connector like USB and
FireWire, so it can power small peripheral devices. It will use IP packets like Ethernet, so it provides your wide-area communications for things like email and Web browsing, but it will
also use Zeroconf IP so that connecting local devices is as easy as USB or FireWire is today. People ask me if I'm seriously suggesting that your keyboard and mouse should use the
same connector as your Internet connection, and I am. There's no fundamental reason why a 10Mb/s Ethernet chip costs more than a USB chip. The problem is not cost, it is lack of
power on the Ethernet connector, and (until now) lack of autoconfiguration to make it work. I would much rather have a computer with a row of identical universal IP communications
ports, where I can connect anything I want to any port, instead of today's situation where the computer has a row of different sockets, each dedicated to its own specialized
function.
Well it sounds like you're working on some wonderful ideas and technologies there, and I'm very excited to see Apple adopting Rendezvous so readily for Jaguar. I'm
certain this will prove to be an important milestone in the evolution of networked computing. Stuart, thanks again for being here, and I wish you the best of luck in your
dual roles as ZEROCONF Chairman and Wizard Without Portfolio at Apple!
Thank you Jared.
you make a good point.. Does the show happen if apple doesn't show up (doesn't apple hire IDG to run it>\?)
Mac FixIt is definetly a legit site and show have access. Apple is being out of line..
It's there show..
If they think your publication doesn't reach enough people or meet there criteria they don't give you a pass.
It used to be circulation was used (you print and distribute so many copies...), but with the web it's cheap to publish, so everyone with a web site probably wants press credentials..
people should stop whining..
Internet radio is different than regular radio in that you know exactly how many listeners you have. It seems the rates are per song.. and they're the same for commercial and non-commercial..
And existing radio stations will pay more to replay their broadcasts too.
You Knew this was comming, most cd's tell you public performance is prohibited, now webcasting is officially public performance
It AOL changes it Default browser to Netscape, than web designers will again have to consider netscape/mozilla when doing pages..
Why AOL hasn't switched after buying netscape must say something about microsofts control...
Competition is good though, so hopefully this will help all browsers get better..
The decordova museum in MA had a video game exhibit in the 80's (abiet a long time ago). Back when games were games. THey had atari 2600, intellivision and coleco vision all playing donkey kong. THe had a lot of stand up machines too, asteroids, ms. pac man etc. They took tokens they sold at the front desk, except Zaxxon which was free. Went there a couple days after school when there were no crouds... Kick'n.
We had 8 bit color and mono sound back then, none of these fancy shmancy 3d cards they have now...It was amazing what they could get out of that hardware!