From the monthly archives:
Today the spotlight slides onto the history of early user interface design.
A certain Steve Jobs some time ago mentioned the history of fonts on the Mac at the Stanford Commencement 2005 speech. Rumors of Jobs’ insatiable egoism notwithstanding, he laid claim to the existence of font technology on all computers. Of course, he didn’t actually [...]
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The Internet is a well established entity these days. When was the last time “the Internet” was down? Exactly.
But while we are used to the physical networks resilience to all sorts of technical, human, and political problems, there is one crucial service running on these networks that is largely unregulated – DNS and the root [...]
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Serious props to the EFF guys for cracking this.
I had heard about this inter-governmental-corporate scheme for a few years, but since I’ve never owned a color laser printer didn’t have much of an opportunity to check it out.
The way they cracked it is a pretty tricky technique, but determing the parity bits was a big [...]
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…Linux will be viable on the desktop. On this day, Microsoft and Apple will actually be worried about an upwards kink in the slowly growing curve of Linux marketshare. But first, Windows Vista and Mac OS X86 will arrive with interfaces that ‘just work;’ where the computer gets out of the way and takes care [...]
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