beo daily - daily stuff

31 January 2000

• Two Days in Davos
• Risks 20.77
• Squeak InfoAgent 1.0 is out

28 January 2000

• Best just before lunch
• iMac colors and Personality
• Nice DVD Copyright article
• Crackers and Crackdowns

27 January 2000

• XHTML 1 is out
• 30 arcsec (~900m) global elevation data
• Venice urban hygiene has a web site...
• Nethack 3.3.0 is out
• Why Jedi sucks
• 10 things I hate about the web biz
• ImageMagick 5.1.0
• Design of a high perf Smalltalk-80 VM

26 January 2000

• Smalltalk Papers
• JOHO
• Double Click is tracking you
• Computer Gaming Languages
• Copy Protected CDs

25 January 2000

• Hubble is working well
• The future of Console Gaming

24 January 2000

• Risks 20.76
• Red Herring - 10 Trends
• Tomalak's Realm - @home speed limits
• Timezone support for Squeak
• Saying No Alertbox
• Some GNU ports to the mac
• Tomalak's Realm - Ecological model on the web

21 January 2000

• ArsTechnica on crusoe.
• Pathetic Gaming Magazine ads
• Mac iTools under older versions of MacOS

20 January 2000

• Transmeta announces its processor
• Raytheon way misses its earnings. Sigh, there goes the 401k.
• Strong Privacy
• New Power Centres
• New Weather Computer
• Katz on Freedom from speech
• Katz on hostile communications

18 January 2000

• Tie-tanic. StarWars meets Titanic
• Denise Caruso - AOL TWX A marriage of control.
• A new Cryto Gram
• Ask Tog piece on MacOS X
• I Have a Dream a day late.

17 January 2000

• Diameter of the World Wide Web
• Cringley on the AOL/TimeWarner merger.
• Risks 20.75
• Myths for massive Internet Market Caps
• Cluetrain Excerpts

14 January 2000

• Jean Paul Sartre's cook book.
• Faint objects found in Cosmic X-Rays

13 January 2000

• Supreme Court decides that states can not sell driver's license info. Yes!
• Joy sees Many Webs

12 January 2000

• Katz on AOL Nation
• XRay Astro in the NY Times

11 January 2000

• TidBITS 512
• Crossair had a Saab 340 crash. The article is in French.

10 January 2000

• Lawyers jump ship.
• A new Type Inference engine for Squeak
• crow recipes?
• Alertbox - Is Navigation Useful?
• Alice dissertation (pdf)
• Risks 20.74

07 January 2000

• Any Birthday is a vile way to exploit public records.
• Stuning as usual, Netfuture #100
• Penguins in Safety Sweaters to protect them from the oil on their feathers.
• Uncultured Perl
• Wrong predictions
• Music of the Ancient Near East including a MIDI file.

06 January 2000

• Gee, am I the only one who's irritated that Apple's new iTools only run on MacOS 9 or later?
• Squeak 2.7 is being released
• Swiki Beta 8 / Comanche 4 is out

05 January 2000

• Coldstore - a gigabyte-scale persistent object store
• Coldstore Future Technologies

04 January 2000

• Apocalypse Not by Jon Katz.
• Bruce Sterling's Manifesto for 2000
• G4 vs K7 review
• Wired's top 10 vapor products

03 January 2000

• Happy Y2K! Everything seems ok, though we lose a lot of transatlantic packets with RFC 1149 :-)
• Risks 20.72
• A special SJ Mercury section on wealth
• Dan Gillmor's lowlights of 99
• Eric Raymond on Open Source software and Security