The Village Voice picks up on the latest craze: Howard Dean, the Internet Rock Star. What a hoot! Link courtesy of Scripting News
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Happy birthday, Mac
“Happy birthday, Mac.” From Hack the Planet. Click the link to watch the Ridley Scott commercial, aired January 24, 1984, during the Super Bowl.
OSNews points to a collection of articles at MacMinute in Happy 20th Birthday, Macintosh
KDE on Cygwin on Windows!
KDE on Cygwin: KDE 3.1.4 Available From OSNews. Pretty neat! Run Linux apps under KDE/Cygwin on Windows.
Review of Xandros
OSNews links to a review entitled “Can a Geek Love Xandros?” reviewing the distribution formerly known as Corel Linux. Overall it sounds like it could make a user-friendly desktop replacement. Pretty impressive, considering it is based on Debian, a distribution with a reputation for solidity but not user-friendliness.
Tognazzini: "OS X, in the form of the Panther release, is more than ready."
OSNews links to three stories: Reviews of Mac OS X Panther by Bruce Tognazzini: Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, “Make Your Mac a Monster Machine” and “Top Ten Nine Reasons the Apple Dock Still Sucks.” Bruce was Apple employee #66, and is a respected authority on human-computer interface design.
Microsoft – The Path Ahead
Microsoft – the path ahead [OSNews]
Another intriguing post from the fellow at aaxnet.com – a presentation with a lot of citations, although I think the conclusions are sometimes a stretch. Interesting prognostications, nonetheless.
Stallman: State of Free Software
Seems like this is the month for 20th anniversaries: OSNews posts Stallman: State of Free Software Address: “Richard Stallman wrote a short editorial on the 20th anniversary of GNU. It’s a summary of what he considers needs to be done now.” Slashdot follows up.
2004: Looking back and looking forward
Jim Louderback posts the Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever and Tech Predictions for 2004(link via Slashdot)
Marshall Loeb: Ten top trends for 2003 (via Ole Eichorn via Scoble)
FastCompany: If He’s So Smart…Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation
OSNews links to a FastCompany article on Steve Jobs and Apple, maintaining that perhaps innovation doesn’t equate with financial success. Perhaps not, but Apple is surely an innovation leader.
Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers
OSNews links to Joel Spolsky’s The Cultural Differences of UNIX and Windows on the JoelOnSoftware web site. Joel has a whole series of thoughtful essays on his site. I think there are some good points in the essay, although any argument that claims that all things can be divided into two categories tends to be a bit extreme to demonstrate the black-and-white divide:
This directly led to a schism in user interfaces; nobody has ever quite been able to agree on all the details of how the desktop UI should work, and they think this is OK, because their culture values this diversity, but for Aunt Marge it is very much not OK to have to use a different UI to cut and paste in one program than she uses in another.
Needless to say, Slashdot picked up on this essay and has the predictable discussion here and here.