* Gearhead: W2K3 sharing fix, GPS tool, Microsoft * Backspin: Consumers, politicians and toolbars: full of bull * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: W2K3 sharing fix, GPS tool, Microsoft
Ever since we got our Macintosh G5 (quite a long time ago) we couldn’t get OS X to connect to shares hosted by our Windows 2003 server. Each time we tried the Mac would complain (not very helpfully) that “the original item cannot be found”; the programmer who thought that was a good error message should have his ears boxed.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Consumers, politicians and toolbars: full of bull
I am reading a fine book: On Bullsh*t, by Harry G. Frankfurt, professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. Now you may think that BS is a risible topic, but, as Frankfurt points out, BS matters.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Web Applications: Platial Mapkit
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This Week in Web Applications: Joopz and Moodjam
Actually, to say “This Week” is inaccurate as the newsletters were, as always, published last week, but as they only hit the archive this week I feel somewhat justified …
I discuss Joopz, a Web-based cell phone texting intermediary that impressed me, and MoodJam, yet another social networking service that is getting generally positive coverage for reasons I don’t quite get …
