The very first commercial mouse came with the Xerox Star 8010, introduced on April 27, 1981, at the National Computer Conference in Chicago. For $16,000, buyers received a system with a point-and-click interface along with a gizmo called a mouse.
God, I can’t even imagine using a computer without a mouse. But I wouldn’t be willing to pay that much.
Does anyone have Qwest DSL in Colorado? Have you noticed slow / flaky / fucked-up DNS? I’d call them and ask, you know, but it seems I might get a quicker answer as to what’s wrong here.
The officials in Venlo say they want to make it easier on Germans who flock to the southern Dutch border town for drugs by opening two coffee shops with drive-thrus selling drugs such as marijuana and hashish.
Thats really nice of them. I wish they would do that here.
It appears that W. isn’t so sure of his military stance with China. He’s covering his ass with a Reagan era antimissile system that looks to violate 30 years of peace treaties between the US and other former Soviet affiliated nations, including China. I want everyone to remember the overwhelming margin that Bush DIDN’T win by. He lost (nationally) by about 540,000 votes.
So I made my first attempt at using GrayMatter to set up a weblog the other week, and I must say it’s a pretty rad peice of software. Totally easy to set up and configure. The hardest part is editing re-flowed HTML inside a little textarea. Can’t win ’em all. Check out the fruits of my labor, the 23skidooland SwingLog.
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So because I’ve been so busy lately, I totally forgot to mention: Today is May 1. Deeperhue has launched. It doesn’t look too hot on PC, because I don’t have one to test it on. Pity.
I just noticed that BBEdit 6.1 has a nifty little ‘Set Menu Keys…’ item in the ‘Edit’ menu. This allows you (among other things) to set ‘Command-Shift-S’ to the more oft-seen ‘Save as’ instead of ‘Save to FTP’ as is the application’s default for the key-command. I’m not sure if 6 or 5 has this option, I just noticed it with 6.1
I think the recording industry gets dumber and meaner everyday. Fuck, this is almost funny.
Bowing to the threat of legal action from the recording industry, a Princeton computer scientists decided against presenting a paper Thursday on how the research team he led broke security on digital music.
WOOO!!
SDMI had held an open challenge some months ago, asking people to see if they could break the security measures.
But why are they threatening him? He did exactly what they wanted him to.
This is quite interesting… I would *love* to try it out but its in Japan only for now because the hard drive uses PCMCIA which is only part of the Japanese models. :<
