| |
 |
Friday, May 10, 2002 |
Some sneak peaks behind the Jaguar veil
For all of my complaining about Jaguar and the continued practices of bundling applications with OS X, it looks like the late summer OS X update with a price-tag-to-be-named-later holds a lot of promise. For a few examples, check out:
The Register: Apple's Jaguar sliced and diced. [Hack the Planet]
6:34:32 PM 
|
|
More on the tangled history of Cocoa and Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs and the History of Cocoa, Part Two. In this second part of a two-part series, Simson Garfinkel and Michael Mahoney take you inside the secret mission, dubbed Star Trek, to port the Macintosh operating system to Intel-based hardware. Then they cover the port of NeXTSTEP to the PowerPC, leading to the birth of Mac OS X. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
6:25:06 PM
|
|
Mac users...step away from those copy-protected CDs
MacCentral points to a document where Apple advises on ejecting copy-protected audio CDs. Essentially, since copy-protected CDs don't adhere to the standards for CDs, they don't function in the same manner as CDs in your Mac. This creates the chance that you won't be able to eject a copy-protected CD if you insert it into your drive...
2:18:04 PM
|
|
Ever wondered how to better serve images from a Web site?
Managing Images with a Web Database Application. ONLamp.com:  “Web developers often need to store images, sounds, movies, and documents in a database and deliver these to users. In this article, I’ll show you how to develop a simple Web database application that allows users to upload and retrieve images, but can easily be adapted to storing files of any type.” [ranchero.com]
12:47:32 PM
|
|
80211b News: It's amateur radio vs. Wi-Fi
FCC considers putting amateur radio operators above Wi-Fi users: in an interesting set of events, the FCC has opened a docket on making amateur radio have the primary status for the 2400 to 2402 megahertz band, the lower part of the unlicensed ISM band which 802.11b, HomeRF, Bluetooth, and cordless phones all use. Primary status would give them the ability to push unlicensed users off or require manufacturers to put subordinating equipment in. The worst case would be abandoning channel 1 of Wi-Fi. The announcement is available from the FCC as a Word doc, a PDF, or a text file. The rulemaking would also give hams (the informal name for amateur radio enthusiasts) secondary status on the 5250 to 5400 MHz band, which overlaps half of the 5150 to 5350 Mhz U-NII band used for 802.11a. [80211b News]
12:23:23 PM
|
|
© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
|
|
|
|
|
