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Linked List: April 25, 2005

Monday, 25 April 2005

Even better accuracy, Tiger compatibility, improved AppleScript support, and more. The beta versions of 2.3 have been running at 99.9 percent accuracy for me.

‘Floating’ Ownership ★

Dave Nanian of Shirt Pocket — the software company behind the excellent SuperDuper disk duplicator/backup utility — writes about an interesting consequence of Mac OS X’s optional ability to ignore file permissions on FireWire drives: the permissions on files you create on such drives “float”, meaning they appear to be owned by whomever is looking at them. This can lead to problems if they’re “looked at” by software running as root, such as SuperDuper.

Google Ads Evolving Into Same Type of Crap as Traditional Ads ★

Saul Hansell reporting for The New York Times:

Starting today, Google will test changes to its advertising program that will give advertisers more control over where their ads are shown, how they pay for them and what they look like.

For Internet users, the most visible change will be an expanded use of ads with graphics and animation on many of the Web sites for which Google sells advertising, rather than the short text ads that have been Google’s hallmark.

Just what we need: more animated ads.