a crank’s progress

Red Hat: Next Redmond?
Red Hat’s dominance is worrisome to some industry players, who say the Raleigh, N.C., company needs effective competition to prevent it from becoming a Microsoft Corp. among Linux vendors and to ensure the operating system continues to develop in an open way.
And who wouldn’t want to have MSFT’s influence over their market? [...]

Apple Keeps x86 Torch Lit with ‘Marklar’
Sources said more than a dozen software engineers are tasked to Marklar, and the company’s mainstream Mac OS X team is regularly asked to modify code to address bugs that crop up when compiling the OS for x86. Build numbers keep pace with those of their pre-release PowerPC counterparts; [...]

Looks like water usage here in my grove of sunflowers and tomatoes is closer to 100 gallons/day (pretty nearly exactly 100). So I’ll note it for a few more days and then all the City and ask them to make the necessary adjustments to my bill.

Driver Labo./Newton/WaveLAN
An 802.11b driver for the Newton has been completed and seems to work with a number of cards. Might be time to blow the dust off it and see how this works. Much as I love the thing, it’s hard to integrate something into you life when it needs to be wired up. If [...]

The filesystem where this ‘blog is stored came close to filling, perhaps even did fill for a moment, while I was adding an entry. As a result, the index.html page was zeroed out. Hmm . . . .
After freeing up some space, I asked MT to rebuild all files and that seems to have [...]

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Some facts you might find useful:
* A ccf is100 cubic feet of water. There are 748 gallons in a ccf.
* Typical water usage for a household is 7 ccf per month
* Typical sewer usage for a household is 6 ccf per month

The [...]

Apple’s Newton Just Won’t Drop
the Newton’s limited processing power (160-MHz processor)
is anyone else shaking their head at the thought of 160 MHz being considered “limited”?
I’ve had every one of these from the OMP to the 2000 (which I stlll have). Apple really missed out o this. I’ll admit it had its flaws but some [...]

In the parking deck of Swedish Hospital, there is a set of disused gas pumps, for what reason I don’t know, but inside the chainlink compound with them is a very actively used bike rack more than half full of bikes.
The times they have a-changed . . . .

IBM Think Research | Cooling Off Hot Laptop Models
When it was launched in 1999, the ThinkPad A20 was the only portable computer on the market to have a thermal hinge and a small fan in place, making it one of the lightest and quietest
*boggle*

Jaguar release catapults Apple sales - Tech News - CNET.com
More than 100,000 copies of Apple Computer’s OS X 10.2 operating system were sold worldwide during its first weekend, the company said.
Not a bad opening weekend. Almost thirteen million dollars may not add up to much across the industry, but it looks pretty strong for [...]