By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: August 14, 2006
Monday, 14 August 2006
- Dell Recalls Batteries Because of Fire Threat ★
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Damon Darlin reporting for The New York Times:
That same month, a Dell notebook in the cab of a pickup parked alongside Lake Mead in Nevada caught fire, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks. The truck exploded. “A few minutes later and we’d have been coming up out of the canyon when the notebook blew up,” said Thomas Forqueran, owner of the laptop and truck. “Somebody is going to wind up getting killed.”
Yikes. The 4.1 million batteries they’re recalling constitute the largest safety recall in consumer electronics history.
No gloating, though: this might be a problem with many lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony, not a problem specific to Dell.
- Usable Keychain Scripting ★
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Daniel Jalkut’s new tool for scripting access to keychain entries is over 200 times faster than Apple’s bizarrely slow Keychain Scripting scripting addition.
- Grand Theft Auto: All Coked Up ★
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Brilliant commercial. (Via Greg Storey.)
- Problems With Mac Pros and Four 750 GB Drives ★
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Bare Feats:
We put four 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives inside the Mac Pro. We booted from the original factory boot drive which we installed in a GLYPH external SATA-to-FW800 enclosure. We had strange results. Weird results.
- Mac Pro at Amazon: $2499 ★
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Buy a Mac Pro (or any other Mac hardware) at Amazon via this link and help support Daring Fireball. (Considering how many people I met at WWDC who have already ordered one, I clearly should have done this last week.)
Also: Anyone who orders a new Mac from Amazon via the Daring Fireball referral link gets a free one-year DF membership. I can’t track this automatically, so you’ll have to email me after placing your order and I’ll create (or extend) your membership by hand.