Link Dump - Geek Edition
March 30th, 2006 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
* What’s the best way to publish a tech book? On-line? Print? Both? One of the guys fro 37Signals goes at it with Tim O’Reilly, the publisher at APress, and more. Fascinating discussion of the economics of book publishing for computer programmers.
* What’s new in Firefox 2.0’s alpha? Check the screen shots out.
* Running Windows inside of Mac? Possibly in the next version of OS X. . . Personally, I’d like to see it so I could play with Linux.
* New pics of the Nintendo Revolution.
* One art prof drops Apple for Linux. The license fee savings allowed for cheaper classes and increased book instruction.
* A slightly more technical explanation of why Adobe isn’t doing Universal Binaries for Photoshop and Illustrator.
March 31st, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Piggybacking on the Firefox news: Microsoft’s new IE beta, just released? Essentially Firefox 1.5. Even Redmond agrees that their browser sucks …
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:09 am
When you’re as far behind as MS is in the browser market, the only option they have is to copy the leader and hope for the best. MS will never LEAD in the browser wars again — not when there’s an open source project like Firefox that can move so quickly.
And, of course, Vista is just a combination of OS X with the GNOME desktop. . .