Tao of Mac

Apr 6th 2004 · 1 min read

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  • , you will soon be able to sell your own music on the Music Store. So you thought was a purposeless toy?
  • is now sync'ed with the mainline 1.12 build and sports a centered, fully reversible zoom and resize. Way cooler. I keep wishing the port had proper antialiased lines.
  • It looks like my got linked from quite a few places, most notably this blog entry that describes a likely architectural approach: real-life distributed systems (or grids, if you like modern buzzwords). I must admit that it crossed my mind, but I was unaware of 's research into distributed filesystems (PDF) and discarded that approach for storage - any way you put it, doing it in a distributed fashion only makes it more viable.
  • It sure must be fun working at these days, even if Gmail might be in violation of a couple of laws.
  • is now Beta 21. Even smoother, and with new process/task handling actions.
  • With the good weather comes an apparently sunny future for European hotspots. Hmmm. Sure. I would take any future estimates in any telecomms market with a pinch of salt these days...
  • If you found on and Panther interesting, Mitch Chapman has written a nice article about pretty much the same thing. Odd coincidence, though, that his sample code churns out thumbnails pretty much like mine...
  • On the other hand, if my on Monitoring the Windows XP Firewall struck your fancy, MSDN has a nice article about advanced configuration, complete with command-line switches.
  • And if you visit MSDN often, why not consider A Career At Microsoft? (via Simon, who dug out Resumé Tips, Dress Code and other nuggets).
  • There are new security updates out for . Check Software Update.