By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 24, 2006
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
- C4: It’s All Hallway ★
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Wolf Rentzsch:
Some folks accused me to trying to out-WWDC WWDC. OK, I’ll concede the Jamba Juice was a direct shot across the bow (developers have been sore about Jamba Juice ever since Apple stopped distributing them at WWDC a few years ago (which is yet another story)), but in terms of the food being much better: come on, it’s just hard not to out-do WWDC on that point. We shan’t discuss WWDC’s “pizza”.
No, we shan’t.
- Firefox 2.0 ★
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Fresh out of beta.
- ‘This Blowhard Bit Is Working Out Great’ ★
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Nice profile by Matthew DeBord of John Hodgman, who plays the PC in Apple’s current ad campaign. (Via Kottke.)
- The Odd Case of the 3 GB RAM Limit in the New MacBook Pros ★
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Jonathan Seff:
At the same time, Apple also increased the maximum RAM for the MacBook Pro from 2 GB to 3 GB. That’s an impressive number, but if there are two RAM slots, why not a 4 GB limit? When working on my reviews of the Core 2 Duo iMacs — which, except for the entry-level model, share the same 3 GB RAM limit — Apple told me that the Intel chip set used inside had limited memory addressing capabilities, meaning 3 GB is the most the system can address. I have to assume that Apple is using the same chip set in the MacBook Pro.
So the 3 GB configuration is one 2 GB chip plus one 1 GB chip. I dispute Seff’s observation that there aren’t many people who need 4 GB in a notebook — I’d venture to say there are a lot of people who need at least 4 GB in a notebook. E.g. anyone who wants to run Parallels with a generouos allotment of memory for both OSes.
- Regarding Access to WWDC Videos on iTunes ★
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I’ve noticed a few people wondering about the fact that the WWDC 2006 videos at the iTunes Store are only available to ADC Select ($500/year) and Premiere ($3500/year) members, and those who paid to attend WWDC.
Well, a little birdie tells me that these videos are not encumbered with FairPlay DRM. A commendable decision on Apple’s part, and I thank them for it.
- Review: ZigVersion 1.0.1 ★
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Andy Finnell reviews ZigVersion, ZigZig Software’s $140 Subversion client for Mac OS X. He likes it, but thinks it’s too expensive.
- Dear Hunting ★
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Excellent William Safire “On Language” piece on how to start an email. I prefer the cold start, with no salutation.
- IBM vs. Amazon ★
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Tim Bray:
The Internet has been amazingly quiet about IBM’s litigation against Amazon. It feels to me like maybe the biggest Internet story of, well, maybe, ever. I haven’t gone and read the IBM patents yet, because reading patents always depresses me. If the titles mean anything (not always a sure bet), this might mean that IBM has finally managed to figure out how to set up that Internet Tollbooth that we’ve always been afraid of.
Among the patents they’re claiming Amazon is infringing upon includes one titled “Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue”.
I certainly can’t stand the idea of software competition being resolved (and eventually stymied) via patent litigation — but somehow I get the feeling that the company behind the infamous One-Click patent isn’t going to get much sympathy.
- Leopard Technology Series for Developers ★
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Great overview of what’s new for developers in Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard), including new tools like Xcode 3.0 and Interface Builder 3.0, new APIs for iChat and iCal integration, and more. Written by James Duncan Davidson.
- Acta Reborn as Opal ★
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Matt Neuburg on Opal, David Dunham’s Mac OS X rewrite of his classic Mac OS outliner Acta.
- Daniel Jalkut: C4 Abridged ★
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Good summary of an excellent conference.
- Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1 ★
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Bug fix update for the current public beta of Adobe’s Aperture rival.
- Kenny Rogers: Cheater ★
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Video and photographs indicate Rogers has been cheating with pine tar throughout this year’s playoffs. The New York Times asked master ball-doctorer Gaylord Perry what he thought, and he couldn’t believe Rogers was foolish enough to use brown pine tar, claiming the (invisible) white pine tar works just as well.
So: Go Cardinals.
- New Core 2 Duo-Based MacBook Pros ★
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New 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros, based on the latest mobile processors from Intel. Now take up to 3 GB of SO-DIMM memory, up from the 2 GB limit that dates back to the PowerBooks. Also available: a 200 GB hard drive as a BTO option. The standard drives are 120 GB on the 15-inch models, 160 GB on the 17-inch. Oh, and they’ve re-added FireWire 800 ports across the entire family.