Linked List: October 21, 2007

Sunday, 21 October 2007

AP Reports That Comcast Is Blocking Some Filesharing Traffic ★

Peter Svensson, reporting for The Associated Press:

Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.

Strange Bedfellows ★

Cringely on the Apple-Google alliance everyone seems to think is inevitable, but which there’s little indication of yet.

FileMaker vs. Leopard ★

FileMaker:

We are currently working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. At this time FileMaker does not recommend the use of FileMaker 9 products on computers running the Mac OS X Leopard.

Curious, given that FileMaker is an Apple subsidiary. Curious language, too, calling it “the Mac OS X Leopard”.

Update: According to FileMaker’s Tech Specs page, it’s a compatibility problem with Safari 3 (although I can only assume what they really mean is the version of WebKit that Safari 3 is based on), and Safari 3 is not optional on Leopard.

Mac Share Increases Seven Percent at Harvard ★

35 percent of the freshmen class at Harvard are using Macs; 65 percent of all students surveyed own iPods. (Thanks to Daniel Carroll.)