Longhorn arrives with a whimper [blogs.law.harvard.edu]
Happy thoughts about Microsoft Longhorn from Philip Greenspun. I would add that developers actually are smarter (well, better equipped) than in the early 1990s - look at how good BeOS became with so few developers and so little time. It actually did have some innovations in core functionality like the file system.
Come on Microsoft, and Apple for that matter. Oh yes - frequent readers will be surprised - I can find fault with Apple as well! While I LOVE having MacOS X based on Unix, it would not have been necessary had MacOS 8 worked (the real MacOS 8 - ie. Copland). Mmmm, OpenDoc... And of course no-one would be using Unix at all if Apple and IBM had have actually pulled off Pink aka Taligent... sigh. At least my fonts are anti-aliased under X.org ... 10:48 PM, 18 May 2005 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0) Faster than a hunted fox, more powerful than a raging fire
I had to build a new linux box on the weekend as I was worried that the random crashes of my beloved SGI workstation were caused by something sinister like dying ram or disks.
Luckily I had a spare motherboard lying around (thank's Julian), unfortunately I only had a celeron processor. I also had to do some nifty soldering work to attach the right pentium power connector to the power supply ;) I took the opportunity to install Fedora Core 3 - my first ever post-redhat installation. And I must say I am very impressed. But of course I had to create a whole new set of settings. Thankfully I keep my emacs configuration in CVS, so that's most of my environment set up! I was lucky that the day after I installed, Firefox 1.0.4 hit the main Fedora repositary and was updated by up2date. I wanted to share with you some absolute essentials to a lovely firefox experience. First is speed. I used to be disappointed that IE was always faster than Firefox, but not with the sweet performance tweaks I researched (see the recent links tab to your left). For your reference, I settled on the following changes in about:config ...
I also can no longer live without Pimpzilla ;) I was soon frustrated by the lack of standard unix keyboard shortcuts (ie. emacs/bash keys). I mean, MacOS X has them ... if one of the world's leaders in UI thinks they are ok, then why on earth would a primarily unix distribution disable them! They are the one consistent set of keys I can use on every platform (except windows). Fortunately you can still revert gnome/gtk applications to real unix behaviour. Run gconf-editor and navigate to the desktop/gnome/interface key (if gconf-editor makes you feel dirty, you've spent too long in regedt32 ;) and set it to "Emacs" (no quotes). The change is immediate - not even any need to restart applications which is quite amazing. 09:56 PM, 18 May 2005 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0) 
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