Does anyone know how to upgrade open source libraries bundled with Mac OS X? My specific concern is with the version of libxml installed on this server (2.6.16) which has serious bugs in RELAX NG validation. I want to upgrade that to version 2.6.26.
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Steve Jobs and others have said for years that Microsoft copies Apple. Remember the “Redmond, start your photocopiers” banner from WWDC 2004? Well now, someone deep inside the beast has admitted it. Straight from the horse’s mouth, here’s Moishe Lettvin, formerly of the Microsoft Windows Mobile PC User Experience team:
My team had a very talented UI designer and my particular feature had a good, headstrong program manager with strong ideas about user experience. We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI. Of course the Shell team also had some great UI designers and numerous good, headstrong PMs who valued (I can only assume) simplicity and so on. Perhaps they had a Mac too.
Emphasis added. Wow.
The new CoreDuo MacBooks from Apple look cool. I’ll probably get one whenever my current 2002-era TiBook dies, though hopefully that won’t be soon. There are a couple of things I wonder about though.
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I’m thinking about upgrading my DVD burner to use dual layer discs. The prices have dropped to about $2 a disc, and are likely to fall fast throughout the next year. Maybe I’ll wait till I’m about to the bottom of my current spindle of 4 Gig DVDs, and then upgrade.
The LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW with LightScribe looks like a good deal at $175. Burning labels right onto the disc would be cool, and this model includes a full version of Toast 7 Titanium which I could use. I’ve been limping along with Toast 6 for the time being, since I totally don’t trust Roxio’s upgrade rebates. (They’ve cheated me on those before.)
Anyone have any experience with this drive?
When I first started speaking at the Software Development conference in 1997, I lugged my PowerBook 5300c with me. Typically this was one of maybe two Macs to be found anywhere at the show. After the first year or two, it was usually the only Mac at that or any other show I attended.
When I started talking about XML, my PowerBook was no longer capable of running enough software to support the talk. The Java VM was atrocious and years behind what was available for Windows or Unix. Much XML software didn’t run at all. At first, when I spoke at a show, I made sure a PC was set up for me; and I’d load my presentation onto it from a CD. Then around 2000 I bought a Dell Latitude LS laptop that served me for the next few years. At this point, there were usually no Macs to be seen anywhere at any show. The presenters didn’t use them. The exhibitors didn’t use them. The attendees didn’t use them.
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