RasterWeb!Slava, the main developer of jEdit, is now 19 years old. jEdit 1.0.1 was released in 1998. Slava was 14 years old when he started working on jEdit. Did I mention jEdit is an extremely impressive text editor? Well, it is.
And the next time someone says “What’s with the kids of today?” tell ’em to shut their pie-hole…
Happy Birthday Slava!
(btw, I didn’t make this cake, it was sent to the jedit-users list…)
From Wired News: House Votes to Outlaw All Cloning. This is really bad news. I mean, who among us here hasn’t used Carbon Copy Cloner at some point? Damn, back to ditto I guess…
Well, I finally did get jabberd running under Linux yesterday, it was just a matter of fixing a line in the config file. I found this after googling… er, I mean, searching the web for the problem I was having.
Next on the list is Net::Jabber, which ultimately should provide a nice little notification framework. We hope.
Of course being that perl is so damn powerful, it can also be a powerful headache. More to come…
Says Dave of one of my old hang-outs:
There would be some closure to stopping in Madison on the way back east. When I moved to California in 1979, my departure point was East Johnson Street in Madison.
Johnson Street, ah the memories… It almost brings a tear to me eye…
(Hey Dave, as you leave Madtown start waving, if I see you an hour later, I’ll wave back…)
We went to the Apple Store last weekend. It was actually Emma’s idea. (I’m a proud dad!) So while the girls played Barbie games on the eMacs (under OS 9 interestingly enough) I checked out all the hardware. Damn technolust!
That iPod. Wow. 20 Gigs. Tiny. And it plays music. Out of my price range.
12″ PowerBook. Nice. Very nice. Tiny. Out of my price range.
17″ PowerBook… oh, not out yet… Pretty sure it’s out of my price range.
So I was using a nice shiny new PowerMac G4 and I tooled around iPhoto a bit, and got the spinning beachball, or lollypop, or whatever it is in Jaguar. I thought, “Well, no surprise, I get that a lot on my G3/250mhz Wallstreet, and my G4/400mhz at work, and even my G4/733mhz at home.” So I looked at the little sign, and realize I’m using a PowerMac G4 with dual 1 Gig processors.. and 1 Gig of RAM.
But I’m not worried, any day now Apple will come out with faster hardware, with more processors, and more RAM slots, and someday my friends, the spinning beachball, or lollypop, or whatever it is in the current version of the Mac OS, will be a distant memory…
Of this I am sure. Maybe.