Friday 28 January 2005 at 08:11 am
As the mini-Mac has started shipping there are a few excellent reviews that have started to appear -
A mini-guide to Mac OS X for new Mini owners and
AnandTech: Apple's Mac mini - Tempting PC Users Everywhere.
The Open Sourcing of Solaris has begun at
OpenSolaris.org. The first component released is the DTRace tool.
Fascinating -
NewsForge | Firebird targets the enterprise database. There is a Firebird Project underway to provide an Oracle PL/SQL emulation layer to help provide an Open Source alternative supported database to Oracle.
Some small but useful Mac OS X utilities - particularly
Spark.
Application for Mac OS X to allow your phone to act as an answering machine -
OVOLAB - Phlink.
Useful FreeBSD tool -
Logmon. Allows you to monitor multiple Unix logfiles simultaneously.
OpenOffice Base -
NewsForge | OpenOffice.org database application: A first look review.
Donationware -
HornWare: SharePoints. Allows you to easily create Mac OS X shares from any directory.
Useful -
MSI Packaging Tools.
Friday 21 January 2005 at 07:59 am
Nifty guide to User Mode Linux -
Howto for UML. UML lets you run multiple virtual Linux machines on a single server in 'user mode' - as an application process rather than a single server utilising all of the hardware.
Windows clustering -
Understanding How Cluster Quorums Work.
Only in Japan -
Giant Red Self Destruct Button.
WTF -
Defense Tech: AMERICA'S IRAN RAIDS ?!?!
At last something genuinely useful -
Cliche Finder.
Humour -
One does not simply walk into Mordor. Animated gif - watch it all the way through.
The net is full of opinions on the mini-Mac - this one seems to sum it up nicely -
Mac mini - the "just enough" computer. It should be noted that there are two PC manufacturers that also make 'small' PC's -
cappuccinopc and
Logisys. Unfortunately both lack the style of the Mac (or anything else by Apple).
Wednesday 19 January 2005 at 07:30 am
A must read for
Ruby and surrealist fans is
whytheluckystiff who wrote the excellent
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby and has now created
hobix which is a Ruby based blogging engine.
Nice hierarchical drive navigation menu for Windows
Exmenu.
Mark Taw has collected his
Favorite Smallware. And for the Mac -
43 Folders: MacOSX Inventory Collections.
One day I'll get my favourite keyboard -
IBM model M keyboards. You can even get these classic devices with built in
trackballs and
thumbsticks.
Why this hasn't hit the mainstream I don't know - its certainly evidence of what home automation will be like in the very near future.
Home Monitor on a Cell Phone was knocked up in 5hrs for a contest in 2001 and needless to say actually won the developer a new BMW.
An excellent explanation of
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses.
Very cool idea for a tree house -
Free Spirit Sphere's. Bet they're not cheap.
These actually do sound pretty relaxing -
Nippaz With Attitude - Music CD albums in a lullaby style for babies.
