09 Jan 2004
Apple drinks its own juice

It's always refreshing to see a company that uses it own products. Sometimes, expecially in tech businesses, it's more the exception than the rule. Remember Microsoft running Hotmail on FreeBSD?

Normally reluctant to discuss even what is served in the company cafeteria, secretive Apple Computer offers a sneak peak into its data center.

(link) [CNET News.com - Front Door]

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Terror Travel

There a very funny article over at Salon entitled "Five o'clock shadow? You're a marked man!".

It's the hilarious acccount of a traveller caught up in the terror alert in Mexico City, trying to get to LA.

While funny, there's a very serious side to this. As the author (Andrew Leonard) says in closing:

But if you think my jocularity is out of place in discussing security measures designed to prevent attacks such as those on the World Trade Center, then think again. In the world we're now living in, we are all being treated as if each and every one of us is a terrorist until proven innocent. This is hard enough for the travel industry to handle financially. How are the rest of us going to cope with it psychologically, as the century winds on?

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Did SCO Actually Buy What it Thought?

The tale gets stranger ...

(link) [Slashdot]

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The 20 Macs That Mattered Most

Almost like a history of the personal computer. What I find so ironic is that I'm looking at a command line on a Mac in 2004 - something that Mac maniacs bragged about eliminating in 1984. Such is progress...

It's the 20th birthday of Apple's Macintosh personal computer. To mark it, we picked the 20 Macs with the biggest impact. By Owen Linzmayer.

(link) [Wired News]

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