John Gruber at Daring Fireball points to a post at Wired Up And Fired Up concerning their experiences putting Relaunch on MacZot. This all centers around John’s recent post, Pinprick, about developers hawking their wares at reduced prices. Apparently Relaunch’s MacZot experiment resulted in no discernable sales increase.
John’s opinions regarding discounted software is [...]
Miracles, black boxes, voodoo, whatever you want to call it, I hate it. I want to know why it works and why it doesn’t work. I don’t think it’s asking a lot.
When Boot Camp was first released, I gave it a spin. The installation was smooth, but everything went south when I [...]
In a recent Business Week article, Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO) explained the social networking feature of the Zune thusly:
I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. Frankly, I don’t want Balmer squirting anything at me. And I’m not sure I want to [...]
So, the Zune is finally here. Yes, it’s here and it’ll most likely be crashing a computer near you soon. But one thing it won’t be crashing is a computer running Microsoft Vista. Why is that, you ask? Is it because Vista is so tight and awesome that it can’t be [...]
I am continually forgetting to start X11 before trying to start GIMP. This continually results in a 10 second delay followed by the dreaded Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 error. So, right or wrong, I created the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 & /sw/bin/gimp-1.2 While this successfully gets GIMP started, it produces the following error:
So far, [...]