By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: June 6, 2007
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
- Marc Hamilton No Longer Unequivocal ★
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Marc Hamilton, in a comment following up on his weblog entry about ZFS being announced as the new default for Mac OS X:
I don’t know Apple’s product plans for Leopard so it certainly wouldn’t be appropriate for me to confirm anything. […] There certainly have been plenty of published reports from various sources that ZFS is in Leopard, I guess we will all have to wait until it is released to see if ZFS made it as the default, or if they simply announce that it will become the default in a future release.
Update: Hamilton has now revised the entry itself, removing the word “default”. It now reads:
Jonathan noted that Apple is planning to use the ZFS file system from OpenSolaris in future versions of their OS.
- New iPhone Commercial: ‘Not the “Kinda Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet’ ★
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It’s not yet on apple.com, but someone posted a new iPhone commercial to YouTube. It shows iPhone Safari loading the front page of nytimes.com, zooming in and out, rotating between landscape and portrait. The narrator says, “This is not a watered-down version of the Internet. Or the ‘mobile’ version of the Internet. Or the ‘kinda sorta looks like the Internet’ Internet. It’s just… the Internet.”
Update: Now on apple.com. Unlike the first three spots, this one doesn’t have any small print on the AT&T screen about requiring a two-year contract. Just saying. Update 2: The first three ads no longer contain the “2 year contract” small print, either. They used to.
- DreamHost Status Blog Entry on Security Breach ★
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DreamHost:
The security flaw allowed the attackers to log into our customer web control panel with the access privileges of another user. From our web panel they were able to access individual user password information. The attackers also attempted to gain access to our central database and billing information but were ultimately thwarted in that attempt. No credit card information or customer personal information was obtained.
- Gizmodo on Microsoft’s Plans for Zunes in Europe ★
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Gizmodo has a better translation of Steve Ballmer’s remarks to a German news site regarding Microsoft’s plans for selling Zunes in Europe. Bizarrely, though, Gizmodo interprets it as Microsoft not ignoring Europe.
Ballmer is saying they’re losing money now and don’t want to lose even more money by expanding to new markets. “It will only pay off after we have reached some of the goals outlined.” In other words, they’re not expanding to Europe until after the Zune turns a profit in the U.S. I wouldn’t hold my breath for that.
I do agree with Gizmodo that this is good news for Europeans, though.
- Marc Hamilton: ZFS is ‘New Default File System’ for Mac OS X ★
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Marc Hamilton, Sun’s VP for Solaris Marketing:
Jonathan noted that Apple will announce this week that the ZFS file system from OpenSolaris will become Apple’s new default file system. So how does that help Sun? It is pretty simple, now every Apple developer will know ZFS and how to use it on products like our SunFire x4500 storage server and other Sun products.
That’s pretty much unequivocal.
- OpenSolaris Feature Request for ZFS Case-Insensitive Support ★
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Marked as “closed approved fast-track” a month ago. Proves nothing, and the report says nothing about Apple or Mac OS X, but any file system intended for use by regular Mac users pretty much has to be case insensitive. (Thanks to John Siracusa.)
- Flash Video of Jonathan Schwartz Speaking About ZFS in Mac OS X ★
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CNet has Flash-based video of Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s comments on ZFS in Mac OS X 10.5. He says:
In fact this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS X.
“The” does imply default, but I wouldn’t bet on it yet. And if ZFS is going to be the new default in Leopard, blabbing about it now isn’t exactly a good way to get on the Jobs family Christmas card list.
- BBC News: Epilepsy Fears Over 2012 Olympic Logo Video Footage ★
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BBC News:
Christopher Filmer rang BBC London 94.9FM to say he suffered a seizure while watching the footage on television and his girlfriend also suffered a fit and needed hospital treatment.
“The logo came up on TV and I was thinking about the 2012 Games and then I was out,” he said.
Prediction: Also causes nausea.
- DreamHost Undercounting Compromised Customers? ★
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Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber:
DreamHost have apparently sent out a letter to affected customers, but we were affected and haven’t heard a word, and as yet there’s nothing on their website, either.
Judging by Healy’s previous description, clearly they were compromised by the same security violation that other DreamHost customers were. But if they didn’t get the warning notice from DreamHost, it makes me wonder if DreamHost has undercounted the number of affected customers.
- Love Those Think Secret ‘Sources’ ★
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Ryan Katz, reporting for Think Secret on May 30:
Apple customers hoping to enjoy native high-definition video editing with Apple’s forthcoming 17-inch MacBook Pro upgrade will have to wait: sources report the laptop will offer the same 1680 × 1050 resolution as current models, with no option to upgrade the display to a 1920 × 1200 resolution.
The new MacBook Pro is available in 15-inch models with a new mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display and a 17-inch model with an optional high-resolution display.
(Thanks to Ben Schwan.)
- Mac Rumors on ZFS and Leopard ★
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Mac Rumors:
Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn’t like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS “the file system” in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).
I don’t have RealPlayer installed, so I haven’t seen the video. Here’s Mac Rumors’ transcript of what Schwartz said:
In fact, this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10.
I think Mac Rumors is reading a lot into just one word, “the” vs. “a”. We already knew that ZFS is going to be a supported file system in 10.5; that may well be all that Schwartz is referring to. Schwartz doesn’t use the word “default”.
- The Frontier ★
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John Siracusa on iPhone development:
But the second thing that attracts developers to the iPhone is more profound, and it explains a lot of the anxiety surrounding iPhone development. The iPhone is not just a new platform, it’s an entirely new set of rules for interface design. That is what struck me the most once the actual iPhone demos started. There are no windows, no close/minimize/zoom widgets, no checkboxes, no radio buttons, no scroll bars, no nothing.
- London Broil ★
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Bryan Bedell from Coudal Partners, on the London 2012 Olympic logo:
Just like you, our first reaction was shock. But we talked about it all morning. By 3 p.m., we decided we love it. And here are ten reasons why you should, too.
I offer one reason to hate it:
It’s fucking ugly. Not just kind of ugly, but hideously ugly.
- DreamHost Hacked ★
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DreamHost, in a letter to over 3,500 shared hosting customers:
We’re still working to determine how this occurred, but it appears that a 3rd party found a way to obtain the password information associated with approximately 3,500 separate FTP accounts and has used that information to append data to the index files of customer sites using automated scripts (primarily for search engine optimization purposes).
Sites that were hacked got a bunch of spammy links inserted into their index.php and index.html pages, in an HTML block that started with
<u style display: none>. Dave Shea got hacked, as did a bunch of the readers who contributed to his comments. Shea wrote to DreamHost and their tech support blamed him. Crooked Timber got hacked four days ago.This is just awful, especially since they still have no explanation regarding exactly how they were compromised.
(Daring Fireball is hosted on a Joyent Accelerator; I’ve also been a happy customer at Pair for many years.)