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Saturday, March 29, 2003

It's Red Hat 9, not Red Hat 9.0
The next release of Red Hat Linux is called Red Hat 9, not Red Hat 9.0. Here's a hilarious article describing why the company "dropped the dot." My favorite: "8 - It was a typo in the announcement. But since it's on the web, we have to believe it's true." OK, maybe it's number "4 - Nine muses, nine planets, nine base digits. Think about it." Either way, nice job.

[ Posted at 7:29 AM | Permalink ]

Apple falls hard on Forbes 500
This week, Forbes announced its annual "Forbes 500" list and Apple came in at number 381, a whopping 92 point drop from last year, which actually makes a lot of sense when you consider how poorly the company is doing (something Mac sites seem curiously unwilling to accept). Other notables for Apple include: it's market value has fallen 40 percent, while its sales and assets are relatively unchanged. And it's profits? Well, Forbes lists that category as N/A, which I take to mean "not applicable," i.e. there weren't any. Problematic? Yeah, I think so. Still, it could be worse. It could be Gateway.

[ Posted at 7:13 AM | Permalink ]

Friday, March 28, 2003

Worse use of CSS ever?
You'd think that Netscape's DevEdge site would have a nice design, since they brag about it, but it doesn't. Instead, DevEdge features an annoying toolbar with some buttons that launch pop-up menus and others that you click to navigate to a new page. The problem is that you don't know which is which because they aren't uniquely styled, and you must hover over each one to see whether it fires a menu. Stupid. No, not just stupid. Shameful.

[ Posted at 1:09 AM | Permalink ]

Here comes Minotaur
Scott MacGregor this week announced the launch of Minotaur, the long-awaited standalone mail client based on Mozilla Mail & News. Minotaur use a simpler and more customizable user interface than Mail & News, but retains almost all of its predecessor's functionality. This new Minotaur project combines the work of the original Minotaur effort with that of Thunderbird, which was going to be the mail client for Phoenix. It's about freaking time. This is the way Mozilla should have been architected from the beginning, and it's amazing to me that we're still paying the price for Netscape's poor coding techniques years after the fact.

[ Posted at 12:55 AM | Permalink ]

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Great story about Apple's board of directors
I disagree that Al Gore was a bad choice for Apple's board of directors, but check out this story about that decision, which also delves deeply into the problems with Apple's board. Consider the following. Of the five pre-Gore board members, one is CEO Steve Jobs, two are close friends of Jobs, and two are CEOs of companies who sell or buy Apple products. Incidentally, the "Byte of the Apple" column this appears in was previously penned by Charles Haddad, who is a jackass. But the author of this article, who has been filling in for the not-missed Haddad since November, is excellent. Suddently, Business Week's coverage of Apple is excellent and worth reading.

[ Posted at 2:52 PM | Permalink ]

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Phoenix 0.6 delayed
According to the Phoenix roadmap, the 0.6 release of this standalone, Mozilla-based browser has been delayed until April. It was originally due in January. Among the changes is a significantly revamped Preferences dialog, which has been renamed and moved, appropriately, to Tools -> Options where it belongs.

[ Posted at 7:12 PM | Permalink ]

Monday, March 24, 2003

Mozilla Calendar development slowdown
Apparently, eONE is going to slow development of Mozilla Calendar because of a change in priorities. That's news to me, as I thought development of this crucial componet came to a standstill months ago. Just where is that "coming soon" Mac OS X version, anyway?

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