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Monday, January 28, 2002
ZeroG makes a cool program called InstallAnywhere that you can use to create platform-neutral installers for distributing your Java applications (the installer will even install the JRE/Virtual Machine if the client computer lacks it [currently supports Windows, Mac Classic and OSX, Solaris, Linux, LinuxPPC, HP-UX, and AIX]).Very cool.
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ZeroG makes a cool program called InstallAnywhere that you can use to create platform-neutral installers for distributing your Java applications (the installer will even install the JRE/Virtual Machine if the client computer lacks it [currently supports Windows, Mac Classic and OSX, Solaris, Linux, LinuxPPC, HP-UX, and AIX]).Very cool.
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Saturday, January 26, 2002
In the past week, someone has offered to translate the bassbook into Portuguese. People have occasionally made offers to translate the bassbook (once into Spanish and once into Russian). And someone has already translated the rec.music.makers.bass FAQ into Italian. I'm excited to see this new translation. If you're interested in translating the bassbook or rmmbfaq into your native tongue, drop a line and we'll discuss it.
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In the past week, someone has offered to translate the bassbook into Portuguese. People have occasionally made offers to translate the bassbook (once into Spanish and once into Russian). And someone has already translated the rec.music.makers.bass FAQ into Italian. I'm excited to see this new translation. If you're interested in translating the bassbook or rmmbfaq into your native tongue, drop a line and we'll discuss it.
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Saturday, January 12, 2002
Not long back, Microsoft proposed to the courts that they should be allowed to make restitution for their decades of illegal business practices through a plan touted as an effort to benefit poor public schools (by giving them refurbished PCs loaded with the Windows OS) but one that was, quite obviously, a simple strategy to expand market share. Luckily, US District Judge Fredrick Motz didn't buy it.
In an amusing tit-for-tat, Linux OS vendor RedHat had previously offered to "enhance" Microsoft's proposed settlement by donating the Linux OS to every school in the country if MS would spend all of the $1billion it offered to contribute on hardware alone (as this would extend the number of schools that could be helped): "Under the Red Hat proposal, by removing Microsoft's higher-priced software from the settlement equation, Microsoft could provide the school districts with many more computers--greatly extending the benefits Microsoft seeks to provide school districts with their proposed settlement." Ouch! If that doesn't call a spade a spade, I'm not shure what would, outside of writing "Your motives are transparent and we're telling everyone" on a RedHat post-it note.
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Not long back, Microsoft proposed to the courts that they should be allowed to make restitution for their decades of illegal business practices through a plan touted as an effort to benefit poor public schools (by giving them refurbished PCs loaded with the Windows OS) but one that was, quite obviously, a simple strategy to expand market share. Luckily, US District Judge Fredrick Motz didn't buy it.
In an amusing tit-for-tat, Linux OS vendor RedHat had previously offered to "enhance" Microsoft's proposed settlement by donating the Linux OS to every school in the country if MS would spend all of the $1billion it offered to contribute on hardware alone (as this would extend the number of schools that could be helped): "Under the Red Hat proposal, by removing Microsoft's higher-priced software from the settlement equation, Microsoft could provide the school districts with many more computers--greatly extending the benefits Microsoft seeks to provide school districts with their proposed settlement." Ouch! If that doesn't call a spade a spade, I'm not shure what would, outside of writing "Your motives are transparent and we're telling everyone" on a RedHat post-it note.
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Friday, January 11, 2002
Problem: you're bored with the look of your computer's virtual desktop. Solution: grab lots of beautiful icons and then learn how to tweak your interface. Voila!
Problem: there are some great Macintosh games that you haven't played in years because your old Perfoma 631CD is sitting in an attic somewhere. Solution: grab a copy of BasiliskII, a 68K Macintosh emulator, along with MacOS 7.5.3, a ROM image, and a cool utility for creating virtual Mac drives on your non-mac filesystem. Learn how to put it all together with some help from this guy and amuse yourself for hours. Then, after you've sickened youself with all this geekiness, read a book or something (and not one about networking or the latest JDK).
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Problem: you're bored with the look of your computer's virtual desktop. Solution: grab lots of beautiful icons and then learn how to tweak your interface. Voila!
Problem: there are some great Macintosh games that you haven't played in years because your old Perfoma 631CD is sitting in an attic somewhere. Solution: grab a copy of BasiliskII, a 68K Macintosh emulator, along with MacOS 7.5.3, a ROM image, and a cool utility for creating virtual Mac drives on your non-mac filesystem. Learn how to put it all together with some help from this guy and amuse yourself for hours. Then, after you've sickened youself with all this geekiness, read a book or something (and not one about networking or the latest JDK).
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Tuesday, January 08, 2002
In the last week, there have been lots of backend changes here at wheatdesign and there are more to come. The styleswitcher script is now working very well on windows machines and macs running IE or Mozilla. Next, I'm going to fix a few typos and get everything to validate. Thanks to sjarvis for the debugging help.
The holiday break is over, the final round of shameless movie indulgence included The Virgin Suicides (pretty good), The Cell (suprisingly good sci-fi--beautifully shot and the art direction is just amazing), Haloween (at least the third, perhaps the fifth time on that one. It suffers quite a bit with age and successive viewing, though it was terrifying when I was a kid), and Gattica (third time on that one--excellent!).
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In the last week, there have been lots of backend changes here at wheatdesign and there are more to come. The styleswitcher script is now working very well on windows machines and macs running IE or Mozilla. Next, I'm going to fix a few typos and get everything to validate. Thanks to sjarvis for the debugging help.
The holiday break is over, the final round of shameless movie indulgence included The Virgin Suicides (pretty good), The Cell (suprisingly good sci-fi--beautifully shot and the art direction is just amazing), Haloween (at least the third, perhaps the fifth time on that one. It suffers quite a bit with age and successive viewing, though it was terrifying when I was a kid), and Gattica (third time on that one--excellent!).
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Thursday, January 03, 2002
I just now uploaded the working version of wheatdesign.com 2.5, a site-wide redesign involving just about every page on the site, so please bear with me during this time of transition. The archives are screwy right now and there are probably other glitches that I haven't noticed yet. All will be well soon.
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I just now uploaded the working version of wheatdesign.com 2.5, a site-wide redesign involving just about every page on the site, so please bear with me during this time of transition. The archives are screwy right now and there are probably other glitches that I haven't noticed yet. All will be well soon.
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My vacation is nearing its end, so the list of movies marches onward: The Score, Made, and American Movie.
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