Nesen uzdūros interesantam rakstam, par to kā reiz tapis Apple populārais produkts Grapher, ir vērts izlasīt par to, kā cilvēki ir gatavi ielavīties sava bijušā darba devēja ēkā, lai turpinātu darbu pie iesākta projekta, gatavi to darīt bez atalgojuma, pie tam tādējādi piesaistot lielu daļu no esošajiem darbiniekiem izveidojot tādu kā slepeno kopienu, kura galu galā pabeidz šo produktu un pa kluso arī iekļauj to MAC OS operētājsistēmā.

The secret to programming is not intelligence, though of course that helps. It is not hard work or experience, though they help, too. The secret to programming is having smart friends.

/Ron Avitzur/

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It seems that everybody is talking about it all the time. I’ve been Mac user just for mere 5 months and found out that this platform is great. Of course if it wasn’t based on UNIX it would be just another “windows”. I find terminal irreplaceable, I’m sure if you are into UNIX as much that I am you can’ t live without few terminals opened all the time.
What about 30th anniversary announcements? Maybe I would like to see new iPod video..

Two years ago Apple at its WWDC made fun about MS Windows upcoming version Longhorn (as it turned out later, it never got released and now MS says that their new OS called Vista will ship at January ’07) by making these posters:

Here’s good article how experienced Linux user feels when he gets to live a life with a Mac. It’s without all the Mac vs. Linux vs. Windows crap, pure (more or less) analyze.

In twenty odd years of working with computers, I never owned an Apple computer. Frankly, until OSX, I was never interested. But the BSD underpinnings of OSX got my attention. The Mac finally got a “real” operating system. It was interesting enough that several years after it debuted, I purchased my first Apple computer on eBay, a Mac Mini, to dig a little deeper into the OS. Not only did Apple do something right with OSX, but it was smart marketing to introduce a cheap Mac that worked with PC hardware. It is squarely aimed at Windows switchers and the mildly curious like myself. I would never have considered springing for a full-blown iMac or iBook as a learning exercise, but a used Mini fit the budget.

Full article – The Macintosh through Linux eyes