Archive for April 24th, 2007

Haiku Propaganda and… haiku

April 24, 2007

I may as well go scorched-earth since nobody has appreciated my positive comments about HaikuOS. Here are some ideas for peddling your little piece of BeOS.

Haiku - Insecure by Default!
Haiku - Almost as Safe and Stable as Win95!
Haiku - Sure, It Reboots Often — But It Reboots Quickly!
Haiku - So Easy to Crash a Kid [...]

Apple Execs Charged

April 24, 2007

Two Apple executives, former CFO Fred Anderson and former general counsel Nancy Heinen, have been charged in the options backdating scandal. Anderson has reached an agreement with the SEC in which he doesn’t admit or deny guilt and only returns $3.5 million he profited by from the options backdating. Anderson’s lawyer suggests he’s not only [...]

New Icons for My Rox

April 24, 2007

There’s nothing unpleasant about the default Rox icons, but I decided to freshen things up a little and scale the icons to the same size. The top image is a look inside a folder.

The second shows some folders on the pinboard.
I chose the folder icon for my base because it looks equally good on [...]

Haiku Insecurity

April 24, 2007

I shouldn’t have wasted my time responding to one of the true believers at OSNews. My previous remarks about BeOS, Zeta, and Haiku aren’t personal — they’re specifically aimed at a handful of issues I think are relevant to the present and future of computing:

user adoption
application availability
technological relevance

Novelty may appeal to a certain breed of [...]

Semantic Technology Conference

April 24, 2007

The third annual Semantic Technology Conference will be 20-24 May 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference will have 130 expert speakers, 24 case study presentations, three keynote panels, and is expected to draw more than 600 in attendance.
Along the same lines of the earlier post about Cyberstates 2007, “Semantics is [...]

Kaspersky: Mac, Linux Virii Explosion

April 24, 2007

Eugene Kaspersky says that MS Vista’s poor sales will drive more users to other platforms and increase “significantly” the number of malware exploits for those platforms. He suggests Linux’ availability in code might be more problematic when and if that occurs:
More people are watching open-source code, so they are more quick to find problems. If [...]

Cyberstates 2007

April 24, 2007

The American Electronics Association has released their Cyberstates 2007 report. The health of the US tech sector appears to be very strong, but the caveat to its growth rate is that it’s about to hit the wall in available US workers. The solution? Outsourcing and relaxing immigration rules.
The unemployment rate for computer scientists last [...]