Apple Applies For Color-Change Patent
Secret300 writes "Apple is applying for a patent to release "devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance." If this is a success, it would considerably boost Apple’s presence in the technology world." So, perhaps we can not only theme our desktop on the machine - but our literal desktop. (apple.slashdot.org)
Joe Strummer, the leader of legendary Seventies punk band The Clash, has died of a suspected heart attack aged 50….A spokesman for Strummer, real name John Graham Mellor, said the singer died at home in Broomfield, Somerset, on Sunday.
#!/bin/sh # grabcamino 0.3 # by Robert Daeley http://www.celsius1414.com/ # Shell script grabs latest nightly build of Camino # and opens it in default decompression program. # Assumes Mac OS X default install with curl available. cd /tmp curl -O "http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/camino/nightly/latest/Camino.dmg.gz" open /tmp/Camino.dmg.gz
From mrbarrett.com:
Seems I ran into a bit of a problem after applying the Mac OS X 10.2.3 update tonight. One of the changes this update provides is a Canadian language spell-checker. Shortly after updating my computer, I began experiencing some very unusual behavior. I’ve outlined the problem in this brief letter to Apple….
(Hilarious!)
The MacSlash story I posted earlier has turned into, shall we say, a ‘spirited’ discussion. Slashdot picked it up later and the arguments continue:
The following information has been posted on the GNU-Darwin SourceForge page and has been confirmed via email with proclus, project lead.
GNU-Darwin will no longer ‘support or distribute any software which links to proprietary libraries, and that includes Cocoa, Carbon, CoreAudio, etc.’ They will also be putting PPC collections into ‘maintenance mode’ and moving all operations to x86.
