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Computerworld: Even the sky’s no limit for open source hero, Shuttleworth

Astronaut, entrepreneur and founder of popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu — Mark Shuttleworth is in Sydney this week for the Ubuntu Down Under conference. He was also one of the speakers at Linux.conf last week and took some time out with LinuxWorld to discuss life, the universe and everything open source.

(via OSNews)

A while back endgadget featured this preview:

A video encoded with Quicktime 7 using MPEG4. They depict a screensaver written in the new Quartz Extreme with a new developer application called Quartz Composer, that animates RSS feeds in, shall we say, a pretty jaw-droppingly slick way.

(via Slashdot)

Walter Mossberg: Tiger Leaps Out in Front

Tiger is a beautiful and powerful operating system that advances personal computing. It is a big gain for Mac users right out of the box. If Apple can wring out the delays, it will be a home run.

The Slashdot post quotes David Pogue of the NYT:

…Tiger is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating system prowling the earth.

Another commenter:

Everything I’ve ever wanted in a computer system is a few hours away from becoming reality.

Update

David Adams of OSNews’ review:

I give it a 9/10, knowing that the day an OS earns 10/10 the sky will fall.

Update

The most in-depth, technical examination of Tiger (21 pages) by John Siracusa of Ars Technica

Tiger is the best version of Mac OS X yet. It offers substantial improvements over Panther in all important areas. The performance improvements are immediately noticeable. Every major bundled application has been improved. There’s an unprecedented number of substantial, totally new features and technologies: Spotlight, Core Image and Video, Quartz 2D Extreme, Dashboard, and Automator, just to name a few.

This is all on top of the most significant revision to the core operating system in the history of Mac OS X. Fine-grained locking in the kernel prepares Tiger for future Macs with multi-core CPUs. A stable, abstracted, forward-compatible system for kernel extensions frees Apple to make more kernel changes in the future without worrying about breaking existing kernel extensions. And as usual, nearly every bundled Unix program has been updated.
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Overall, Tiger is impressive. If this is what Apple can do with 18 months of development time instead of 12, I tremble to think what they could do with a full two years—let alone the length of time it took for Mac OS X 10.0 to first ship.

Mark Burnett of SecurityFocus: Security for the Paranoid

Are extreme security measures acting on false threats that don’t really exist?… I call it meticulous precaution

(via Slashdot)

MacNN reports.

Apple is No. 1 on Wired Magazine’s list of ‘masters of technology and innovation.” The 2005 Wired 40, available in the May issue of the magazine and expected to be online on April 29, are the “global thinkers driven by strategic vision.” Apple moved up from No. 3 on last year’s list to No. 1 on this year’s list.

(via MacSurfer)

Judging by the screenshots , Longhorn is… Disappointing

This has the makings of a train wreck.

Oh well, they’ve still got more than a year to get their act together… and it seems they’re going to need the time.

Meanwile, Apple’s Tiger is set to roar !

Update 04.28.05:

Slashdot: Microsoft Demands Removal Of Longhorn Images

Paul Thurrott discusses it on his site, [with 12 pages of comments!] stating that Microsoft never told anyone beforehand not to post screenshots of the publicly available beta, and links to the new galleries he has up now. ‘Enjoy it while it lasts.’”

Then there’s the Google cache which still affords a means of viewing the images (until they are re/moved)

Gotto love the menu button “Shut Do…”
LOL!
and the scrollbar in the menu!

Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed!

You can then point a parser at the new feed and display a mix of stories from various sources on your website.

(via trendalicious)

Turning a Power Mac G4 Cube into a G5 (looking) Cube

(via digg/apple)

Monochrome Digital Picture Frame

(via Make: Blog)

Why Linux is the Logical Choice for the Classroom

…the benefits of using OpenSource software in an educational environment, where budgets are often tight and staffing support is minimal. Using a Linux “thin-client” configuration, this article shows the stark contrast between a Microsoft based lab and a Linux lab.

The OSI News Weblog: Apple is Depending on Open Source for Security

Apple has stated that they are depending on Open Source to spare OS X the security woes plagued by Microsoft.

Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software at Apple, said Wednesday that having a greater number of people keeping an eye on source code leads to better software security.

I haven’t listened to the MCN podcast yet, but already like the idea of Dave’s plans for an outliner.

Hopefully it’ll not be Windows only…

The spit fight that ended my career at MSNBC

So, fuck it. I quit.

James Governor: Buy Jon Udell

if Rupert wants to get serious about the future and intimations of portality, he might want to check out the new tagging universe at infoworld, a media organization that is powering forward with compelling content and new ways of working and thinking. At the heart of the smart is Jon Udell. I don’t think there is anyone smarter in this business intersection…
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He is the future happening now; we should all keep watching.

w00t! My thoughts exactly.

(via Ryan Tomayko)

The Carl D. Goldin saga documented in actual correspondence exchanged with Micro$oft

It should also serve as fair warning to anyone who is considering using this flawed and (now) virtually useless service.

(via MoFi)