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2006

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[GEEK] Interesting OS X article

Ever wonder how Mac's OS X program launch and execution works? No? Hmm. Anyway, here's a fascinating article telling you more than you ever thought you wanted to know!

"As you can see, executing a process in OS X is a complex affair, and I have tried to cover as much as is necessary for a useful debugging session." (from "How OS X Executes Applications")

🙂 Technorati Tags: osx

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Open Source: the space between Corporation and Commune?

In The Economist, there's an interesting overview of Open Source, what it is, strengths, weaknesses, and what's in store for it. It introduces the catchy metaphor (or is it simile) "… occupying the space between a Corporation and a Commune:

"Even if the cracks in the management of open source can be plugged by some fairly straightforward organisational controls, might it nevertheless remain only a niche activity--occupying, essentially, the space between a corporation and a commune?" (from "The Economist")

Read the whole thing, it's interesting. Technorati Tags: opensource

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Britannica vs. Wikipedia

I'm a big fan of Wikipedia, and of course traditionally (like anyone) have been an admirer of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Recently the highly respected magazine Nature published an article describing a study in which they compared the two and found only slightly fewer inaccuracies in Wikipedia than in Britannica. "The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three." (from "Internet Encyclopedias go head to head") Of course, Britannica is not about to take this sitting down. This is from their web site: "Recently, the science journal Nature published a study of online encyclopedias. It was misleading and wrong from top to bottom, and in a thorough analysis of the evidence by our editors and their outside advisors we explain why the study was invalid and should be retracted." (from Britannica Web Site) All this was covered in the Boston Globe this morning. Interesting. Additional References: Detailed Britannica Article, Supplementary information from Nature on how they collected the information Technorati Tags: science, wikipedia

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Office Live: Why am I not surprised?

Have you heard how Microsoft is shipping Windows Live and Office Live and this-live and that-live? I've seen this movie before and I have to say that I am skeptical. A competitor starts getting successful with a line that Microsoft doesn't own and out comes the "me-too-FUD" based on smoke and mirrors. After all, Office has had ActiveX controls forever , and I would just not be too surprised if Office Live is just a re-assembly of some cool parts that they had lying around with a really great marketing push. Color me skeptical. Or cynical. Anyway, this bit seems to be more or less consistent with that fear:

"The power of Microsoft's branding is so great that slapping the labels 'Live' and 'Office' on a piecemeal bundle of rehashed services seems to have the whole world agog. The evidence doesn 't justify the excitement." (from "Whatever Office Live is, it ain't the Web Office")

Technorati Tags: microsoft, fud

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If you love words you’ll love this

All the words of the english language, ordered by frequency, coupled with some really nifty graphic design and ajaxian coding. Enjoy! This is the work of Jonathan Harris. Here are some of his other projects. Quite cool! Correction: In fact as several readers have said, this site is not Ajax, it's Flash! Which again proves why everyone's obsession with Ajax is almost as bad as their our obsession with Web 2.0 <!-

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