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Friday, October 18, 2002 |
Is SSH the Mac's killer app?
The enterprise Mac. IN MAY 2001, Apple began shipping OS X on new Macs. Six months later, at the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services conference, it was clear that a sea change was under way. The open-source geeks who flock to these events were flouting Microsoft not with PC notebooks running Linux, but with PowerBooks running OS X. Displayed on their gorgeous Aqua screens was the Mac's newest and most unlikely killer app: SSH, the secure shell, in all its 80-column, 25-line splendor. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio]
6:32:39 PM 
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From bad to worse
Ever have those times when it just seems like things are building up to tell you something? This evening as I am working on my Pismo PowerBook here in the livingroom I noticed something on the plastic shell of the laptop. When I tried to wipe it away I realized what the problem was. Sometime since the end of September, when I sent my PowerBook to Apple for repairs, and today the computer has developed a crack that runs from the corner where the battery compartment is on the left side of the computer and over toward the corner of the keyboard where the "fn" key is located. I guess it is time to be real careful with this PowerBook now...and to consider the reality that I may need a new computer soon...
6:15:09 PM
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NetNewsWire drives 55% of MNJ visits
Today is the first time in a couple of weeks that I have looked at the referrer statistics for Mac Net Journal, and I found it interesting to see that Brent Simmons' excellent RSS news readers NetNewsWire Lite has grown to make up more than 55% of the reader visits to MNJ. By contrast, the next largest news aggregator is Radio with 7%....
10:03:28 AM
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Back to the future?
This week I have been using the latest betas for Eudora under OS X, after spending the last 8 months or so with PowerMail. I made the switch because PM4 was no longer allowing me to search the email database - a problem that I finally resolved yesterday. But now that I have spent five days with Eudora 5.2 betas, I am loathe to go back to PM. Eudora is speedy, it doesn't use a proprietary database to store its mail, and even though the user interface is lacking, I have no doubt it is the most customizable email client out there.
9:36:34 AM
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Thoughts on Mozilla 1.2b
I spent 24 hours with Mozilla 1.2b, and it simply cannot compare with Chimera under Mac OS X at this point. Typing on my Weblog through Mozilla is painfully slow, pages load slower that with Chimera...at this point there is really not much to recommend Mozilla over its svelte offspring, unless you need the email/chat/newsgroup reading capabilities of Mozilla.
I have bumped Chimera 0.5 to the top of my list of browsers in OS X apps ranked by category...
9:28:17 AM
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rssExplorer tool for Radio
The beta of the rssExplorer tool for Radio is out. What is great about this is the ability to leverage the subscriptions maintained by a diverse group of people. This is interesting for many reasons. First, it allows you to quickly subscribe to lots of new sources. Second, it helps you find sources of news filtered (qualified) by people that have been reading news for a while. Third, this is a living resource. As they change and update their lists, you can leverage their new work. Decentralization in action. Nice! [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
8:04:23 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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