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Dylan Tweney: Broken Trust. "The problem is that Palladium requires users to place a huge amount of trust in Microsoft. You don't get to decide what runs on your computer -- Microsoft does. You can't even open files unless you've been authorized by Microsoft, or by a third party. And that puts a huge amount of power into the hands of these corporations."  802.11b News: Warchalking Hits Government. Update on iPod. All the songs are loaded. Listening to tunes now. Starting with Donald Fagen's I.G.Y. "Perfect weather for a streamlined world. There'll be spandex jackets, one for everyone." Now you're fully informed on the events of the day. Morning no smoking notes  At 9:30AM it was two weeks since I had a cigarette. Cory Doctorow and others send a tip that you can move files from Windows to Mac by turning on FTP on the Mac. Or use the built-in SMB support. Thanks to Julian Melville, Mike Cohen, Aaron Pressman and Christopher Fullford for the pointers. (It worked the second time, I have my music folder from my W2K machine mounted on my Mac OS X desktop.) Then I plugged in the iPod, and a few seconds later its icon showed up on the desktop. What's next? Suppose I should read the docs. OK, 8:30AM update. I'm copying all my music from the Windows machine to the Mac. Should take about an hour. I moved one song across and am listening to it now on my iPod. Nice. A candidate for best-named-blog for 2002. I like the automatic updating feature of Mac OS X. The Mac machine I inherited was running a really old version of the OS. I've installed two levels of updates so far, and doing a third level right now. It's almost as easy as updating Radio or Frontier.  I still wish the iPod just used 802.11b or 10-Base-T to connect. A new way of thinking about that. In the early 80s CP/M software was the kind of juggernaut that HTTP was a few years ago. This led to very strange things, like a CP/M card for the Apple II that allowed it to run WordStar, dBASE, SuperCalc etc. You could argue that Apple II software was better or faster, but the weight of a such a large mass of users made the CP/M card very very popular. Apple has a way of blazing the trail for others. The product that cleans up in this space will work very nicely with Dell, IBM, HP, and Sony computers running MS operating systems. |
 
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