05.30.02
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at 12 pm
Feature list for MacOS X 1.2:
Quartz Extreme – GPU hardware acceleration
Universal Access: Quartz ‘zooming’
Universal Access: Read back text from all apps
Universal Access: Invert screen
Ink – global handwriting recognition
Finder: multithreading
Finder: Services
Finder: Spring-loaded folders
Finder: Open With.. contextual menu
Finder: Automatic thumbnail creation
Finder: Integrated search
Finder: SMB browsing
Finder: WebDAV/iDisk speed improvements
Finder: Set text size
Finder: Set label position to bottom or right
Finder: Show item info
Dock: removed pin-stripe background
Get Info window with collapsable panes
Python, fast CGI, TCL, Ruby
X Server: Server optimised JVM
X Server: Disk, print and email quotas
X Server: “headless” operation
X Server: Improved LDAP, AD, Kerberos support
X Server: Netinstall, Netboot
System Prefs: various panes renamed
Mouse shadow
Pulsating gumdrop of death pointer
Draggable minimised windows
SMB compatibility, bug-fixes
SMB Server
Printer sharing/networking with Win/Mac/Unix – CUPS
Quicktime 6: improved speed, efficiency
Quicktime 6: MPEG4 support
Genie effect window closing
Update Terminal.app
Improved scrolling
Mail.app: threading, stability
Mail.app: expanded filter criteria, use multiple filters
Mail.app: Exchange support
Mail.app: Merge mailboxes, use 1 mailbox for all mail
Mail.app: label emails
Mail.app: intelligent spam filter
Mail.app: start IM conversation in iChat
Mail.app: search over multiple mailboxes
New global Address Book with vCard, SMS, Bluetooth
Sherlock 3 – web services, channels
Java 1.4 – new functionality, improves performance on other platforms
Simple Finder for kids
Quartz rendering for Carbon Quickdraw apps
Universal Access improvements for disabled
Bluetooth support
Visual Eject key feedback
iChat – integrated AIM compatible instant messaging app
Quartz anti-aliasing for Carbon Quickdraw apps
Application icon on minimised windows
Improved GCC compiler for overall system performance
Other optimisations, bug-fixes
IPv6, IPSec
FreeBSD 4.4 base
Windows VPN compatibility
Improved Disk Copy app & CMM modules
Rendezvous – automatic device discovery on IP
Developers can use brushed metal look in Project Builder
iPhoto 1.1
New Digital Hub preferences
Preferences for enabling, configuring built-in Firewall
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05.25.02
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at 8 pm
The months of 2002 have been consumed by this ‘on the verge of finishing’ project that has dragged on for… months. Literally the site has supposedly been going to launch the next month for just about each month ahead. I’m so tired of this thing. The situation, being just about to finish leaves me in a really irritable mood all the time.
My main job these days is the work at PGE. And my focus is getting the project finished. Whenever a project is ‘almost’ finished I begin to put my concentration on getting it done. The closer I get to finishing the more I anticipate finishing. Each week, each day I get a bit more edgy, my humour gets a bit more wry and I get more cynical.
It permeates the rest of the my life as well. I get short with people around me and Amy bears the brunt of it. My plumeting mood has got to be rough because of the contrast with my usual, more even countenence.
I feel like a real heel too because in recent weeks I’ve gotten a new Stereo for my Ghia and a brand new office chair. I ought to be fine and I ought to be able to separate out my issues at work from my actions and feelings at home.
My irritability has only been tempered by the moments that I spend doing and focusing on something else. But I find that it’s got to be something that I can be intense about. I’ve been playing on Amy’s keyboard tapping out and layering little 12 and 16 measure tunes. I’ve been playing some French learning tape tracks over and over again. And I’ve been working on this Director project that our class has supposed to have been putting together.
These are projects that occupy my time before I finish TownPartner and get on with my life.
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05.10.02
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at 12 pm
For the first time, I’ve seen a sign that just made me gasp and gawk. Could it get much worse? It’s one thing for a store’s sign to use the “OCR Extended” font which comes with Windows.
But to then follow it up with Arial in all caps? It’s enough to make my eyes bleed. Look at that weak R or those ugly ‘E’s with their equal length arms. You’d think it was a cheap knock off of Helvetica…
Oh, it is.
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05.06.02
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at 12 pm
I love stuff like this: thismodernworld.com/…/gra_bDoctor.jpg
At the bottom: For 30 days, test Camels in your “T-Zone” (T for Throat, T for Taste) The woman with a the T overlay looks like she’s got just like lines needed for “Total laryngectomy“
This is just one of several interesting ads that are available: thismodernworld.com/…/gra_badvert.html
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05.04.02
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at 1 pm
I’m still waiting for someone to come up with cross-over Rocky Horror Picture Show / Star Trek Fan Fiction.
Original Series only, please.
Frank and Spock can trade eyeliner tips…
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05.03.02
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at 8 am
I’m wondering if I can easily attach this to my Blue and White G3. I think it should simply attach to the IDE cable that’s inside my case already, but I’m not sure:
45GB IBM DeskStar 75GXP 7200RPM 2MB ATA/66 HD. (IBM07N3931)
Isn’t an ATA drive compatible with IDE?
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04.27.02
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at 11 pm
Irony is not ‘a free ride when you’ve already paid.’
From Jamie Zawinski’s DNS Lounge weblog, this is irony:
“I think they really made the right decision in opening before doing any major remodeling of the place. I just kept looking around and noticing things that made my heart sink; it took me back to 2000 when our contractors and inspectors were telling us just one expensive thing after another that we were going to have to do before we’d ever be allowed to open. But as I looked around at Transmission, it was like I was able to see the invisible maze of consequences connecting everything. Like, if they ever want to change this thing over here, that’s going to trigger the need to make that thing over there “accessible”, and once they try to get a permit for that, they’re going to find out that they need to pass just one little noise inspection test… And they can’t pass that with the front wall being a wooden garage door. And suddenly it’s two years later.”
“Our big mistake here at DNA was definitely, definitely, definitely that we closed at all. We should have stayed open the whole way through and found a way to do our improvements in stages, no matter how complicated that seemed at the time.”
“Ah, hindsight.”
JZW was one of the main guys behind Mozilla when it started. Go back and substitute ‘Mozilla’ for ‘DNA’. A complete rebuild. It takes time.
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04.16.02
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at 10 pm
Make sure you find *all* of your forms and reciepts before you send in your taxes. That includes cleaning off your desk to find all those thing you knew you needed to deal with. The “Deal With” pile must be cleaned out once a month!
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Posted in General
at 10 pm
I just watched this episode: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/episodes/ultimate.html It was great! I’m not so much up on the production value, but the timelaps photography of the predators known as starfish or sea-stars is just fascinating!
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04.14.02
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at 12 pm
The real question of the Tax season:
“Is my iPod Tax Deductable?”
(Procrastinating? Who me?)
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