Monkinetic Weblog

"ArsTechnica" has an article on Mac OS X. Ars Technica always casts a keen eye over the material for their reviews. They are extraodinairily thorough - if you're a Mac OS X fan, or curious, definitely read this.

MSNBC is carrying a WSJ article about the controversy over business-process patents. I don't know what the solution is to this, but it's good to see the issue coming up in the courts and legislative systems. Now, if they can only keep from breaking the system even more...

Borland has provided instructions for installing JBuilder on OS X, mirrored here.

The iBot.

I've now had a chance to use "Mac OS X" on both a 12" 800x600 iBook, and a 19" 1200x1600 monitor. I was pleased to discover that Mac OS X's Aqua interface works well on both.

"Jim" links back here, pointing to my comments on the "Mail Pages". Well, here's a reciprocal link to say that I agree with his follow-up comments.

Dave has put the Userland Discussion Group on pause, and is re-instituting the "Mail Pages", which ran '96..'98. To help ease the time burden is Radio Userland, Dave's &uumlautber-content-tool.