By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 17, 2006
Sunday, 17 December 2006
- The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator ★
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- Steve Jobs Predicted the Zune Back in January 2006 ★
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Steve Jobs, in an interview with Newsweek’s Steven Levy back in January, after Levy asked why there still weren’t any serious iPod rivals:
“The problem is, the PC model doesn’t work in the consumer electronics industry, where you’ve got all these companies and some does one thing and another does another thing. It just doesn’t work. What’s going to happen is that Microsoft is going to have to get into the hardware business of making MP3 players. This year. X-player, or whatever.”
(Thanks to Konstantinos Christidis.)
- Stikkit Update ★
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Lots of new stuff over at Stikkit, including a nascent Stikkit API.
- Memory Leak in Activity Monitor’s pmTool ★
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Kevin Ballard:
pmTool, the process run by Activity Monitor to actually collect stats, appears to leak memory. If I leave Activity Monitor running for a good period of time, when I check up on it pmTool is often using over 100 MB of Real Memory. …
A highly non-scientific tests shows it to be adding one new leak every time the UI in Activity Monitor updates (default is every 2 seconds). So if you haven’t changed the update frequency then pmTool will leak 3 KB of memory every 2 seconds.
That’s a lot.
I’m pretty sure this leak only happens on Intel-based Macs; on my PowerBook, I can leave Activity Monitor open for days at a time and pmTool only uses about 800 KB of real memory. But until Apple fixes this leak, it’s useful info for anyone using Activity Monitor on Intel-based Macs.
- Gus Mueller Sums It Up in Six Words ★
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Gus Mueller:
And to sum up my previous post and comments in 6 words in case you don’t want to read it all: I want something fair for everyone.
- Mac OS X 10.5 to Support ZFS? ★
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According to Mac4Ever — or at least according to Google’s French-to-English translation — Mac OS X 10.5 is going to offer at least some level of support for ZFS-formatted disks. (Thanks to John Siracusa.)