By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 8, 2006
Saturday, 8 July 2006
- Random MacBook Shut-Downs ★
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Unclear whether it’s a 10.4.7 bug or a logic board problem.
- The Treacherous Optimization ★
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Ridiculous Fish vs. grep.
- Opal ★
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New outliner from David Dunham, developer of the classic Mac outliner Acta. Currently pre-beta, but there’s a public preview — and it can read 20-year-old Acta documents. Very different vibe than OmniOutliner. (Via Brent Simmons.)
- No Built-In Virtualization in 10.5? ★
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That’s what Needham and Company analyst Charles Wolf says Phil Schiller told him:
“I am so pleased to see [Apple promoting Parallels],” said Wolf. “I had a talk with Phil Schiller at the opening of the 5th Avenue Apple Store, and I asked him the question, ‘will Apple include a virtualization solution in [the next version of Mac OS X] Leopard?’ He said ‘absolutely not, the R&D would be prohibitive and we’re not going to do it. Our solution is dual boot.’ When I saw Parallels come out, I thought Apple would dis it, but this page suggests that Apple will actively support it.