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Big Brother Apple

Do you remember the 1984 ad from Apple? I've embedded it at the bottom if you haven't. Anyways, the point is that I was trying to download the “free” Apple iPhone SDK today and apparently they require me to sign up first. I thought alright, that doesn't seem too unreasonable. Now I have the sign [...]
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Enough with Linux as a second class citizen!

I'm sick of Linux being treated like a second class citizen. Hardware and software vendors alike almost proudly display “Supported for PC and Mac” tag lines. Technically, that doesn't even make sense, because both Windows and OS X can now run on pretty much the same hardware. And so can Linux. Even from a market [...]
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Whats with __MACOSX in Zip files?

More and more people are using Mac's for development these days. As an example, a lot of the core developers from some of the leading web frameworks use Mac as their primary development platform. Several plugin and theme authors for Wordpress also develop on Mac. While this is a good thing, there is one particular [...]
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History of Computing — 6

As you can see, I didn't blog about the last HoC class largely because I had to leave early for Surtaal practice, but it was a wonderful lecture and I encourage all those who are interested to look at the video/slides. Armando Fox is a great speaker – his slides were both amusing and insightful. [...]
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Apple converts Australian mine into iPod

Nifty! Apple converts Australian mine into iPod
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