Tao of Mac

Jun 11th 2005 · 1 min read

Somewhat Hazy

After yesterday's excellent weather on the south side of the river, today's kind of a murky, cloudy, British Saturday morning. I expect to have quite a few new photos up soon, including a few macro shots of the insides of my old server - nothing too dramatic, but it looks like the power supply went out.

Still, I'm disassembling it, washing (yes, washing - they're that dirty) the serviceable parts and scrapping the rest.

Very little news of interest, but here are a few links:

  • Gruber brilliantly accuses Cringely of "turning the pundit dial to 11 when 10 would have done just fine", as well as debunking the "why not AMD?" question that a few tech-centric geeks have been kicking around.
  • Also from Gruber, the earth-shattering piece of news that JWZ switched to an . As JWZ himself put it, "the future direction of xscreensaver has become... highly ambiguous". Maybe now we'll stop seeing people profiting from shareware knock-offs of his stuff and and get first-class versions.
  • Gartner contradicts itself, and sinks even further into the quagmire of irrelevance it created. The only thing they publish I pay any attention is the occasional market share analysis, and even then I keep a packet of salt handy...
  • is going to open two more stores in the UK. No news concerning the rest of Europe yet, I'm afraid.
  • The Feature on OMA and DRM - something I had already mulled, but never had the time to articulate this concisely.
  • Nokia and Intel collaborating on WiMax. Nokia has always had an interest in this sort of thing (and they had a very neat "Rooftop" solution for broadband services a few years back), so maybe this will help make WiMax a reality.

Incidentally, the past few posts are the courtesy of TomBoy, which has replaced VoodooPad until my iBook is repaired.

I'm really taking to the /network computer thing, which lets me have a speedy, responsive /Gnome desktop even through a connection - whatever RealVNC has done to the RFB protocol in the latest incarnations, it feels way faster than the usual Tight setups I've used on boxes - the only annoyances are Flash animations (like my own site header) that tend to send massive region updates down the pipe...