Yet another collection of random links and rantings of a greying unix geek with a photography bent. Pass the Guinness and Grecian Formula.
I found this little gem today. It’s a series of static web pages detailing the setup screens for various different web browsers, email clients, and more.
Handy when you need to talk someone through changing a setting in Thunderbird on XP when you don’t have Thunderbird, or XP. Or you do have Thunderbird but the menu’s are different on your platform of choice.
Just click on the pink highlighted bits to go to the next static page.
We finally got the tree decorated. Went out to the woods three weeks ago to chop ‘er down and then it sat and sat and sat in the tree stand until last night. Too much going on, as per usual, this time of year.
I am experimenting with no-flash, and iso400 settings on Lori’s Canon S45 here.
“Any automatic rifles Santa? I want to go hunting and I’m a bad shot.”
Bwahaha.
Jonathan Schwartz asks us to guess what this picture represents
Some of the first comments almost made me pass beer thru the nose, had I been still drinking beer tonight :
Comments:
The green represents developers as yet to download the development environment most up to date with our Java platforms SE 6, EE 5 and ME profiles ?
Posted by Danny Coward on December 15, 2006 at 05:14 PM PST #Either the use of someone’s mapping application without attribution or proof that Denmark is one of the largest countries on the planet.
Posted by Herm on December 18, 2006 at 06:32 AM PST #
Bwahahahaha.
I don’t know how I missed Apple saying that they have submitted Leopard for UNIX certification and branding.
OS Foundations
The heart of Mac OS X, the Open Source Mach- and BSD-based UNIX layer known as Darwin, continues to see improvements in Leopard. The latest Mac hardware brings more processing power, more cores, and more memory than ever before. The kernel in Leopard has been updated to take advantage of this new hardware.
Leopard certainly won’t be UNIX in name only. Apple will submit Leopard and Leopard Server to The Open Group for certification against the UNIX ‘03 product standard.
FWIW, any os that cares to take the time and effort to pass the certification suite of tests and of course pay for the certification testing by The Open Group can become UNIX branded.
There’s only a few players that meet the latest certification process.
Interestingly enough, right now that’s just Solaris on various platforms, and AIX 5L. Nobody else from the old UNIX wars is left standing on firm enough ground to try for the UNIX 03 branding. Not even HP, who’s HP/UX was branded at the previous level (UNIX98).
Most interesting.
I wonder why Apple is bothering. Perhaps they are going to make a stronger push into big business, aka Enterprise. Hmmm.
