Tuesday, May 11, 1999

The Linux-Newbies list starts now.

Stuart MacMillan hacked up a graphic to welcome me to Linux. Thanks!

News.com: AOL Considering Linux STB?

WoW! Radio.Yahoo.Com. I'm listening now.

MacWorld launches MacBuy.Com.

Macrobyte, a leading Frontier developer, is looking for a JavaScript DHTML programmer, for a short-term contract.

Is there anything the American people, esp Internet users, can do to express our desire for peace with the people of China?

Scenes from Beijing.

Twelve days ago I posted a story about bad service from Dell on a simple repair for my laptop. They promised 72-hour turnaround at the beginning. It's now approx 417 hours later and we're no closer to having a working system. This is impacting my business. Dell had a stellar reputation with me for service, now it's falling apart. They can't make a simple repair, what can I count on them for? I paid a premium, as a business user with limited time, to protect against exactly this kind of foul-up.

Bernie DeKoven is not the only person fed up with NSI.

Mark Kennedy, a team member at The Motley Fool, wants to move his RSS file. A reasonable request. Now we have to come up with a mechanism to update the service list. In my proposal, which I brought to the XML-DEV list, I want to implement a new tag. Read the proposal and discussion here.

Cameron Martin has an IE5-only browser for the RSS files on My.UserLand.Com. I tried it and it doesn't work here, but he says it's "Very Alpha" so that explains it as far as I'm concerned.

Apple: AppleScript change notes for Mac OS 8.6.

Stephan Somogyi: Apple's Open Source Niceness.

Apple's OpenPlay sounds like a little part of Frontier, cross-platform TCP verbs.

MacWEEK: Next Steps for Apple. Cute title!

Red Herring: Intel chairman indicts Internet money model. "A Dow drop of just 5 to 10 percent for more than a month or two would be nuclear winter for Internet financing."

Marimba's stock has been going down since its IPO. Now it's only worth $1.37 billion. Update.. Today it's up 2 points. I wonder if Scripting News readers are bargain hunting?

News.com: Vignette acquires Diffusion.

Here's what Diffusion does.

NY Times: A picture is worth a thousand words. For ten points, who's Bill Clinton's hugging partner? Here's the rest of the story.

The source code for the award-winning MailToTheFuture site is available from the Examples part of the Frontier site.