Duncan's Radio-controlled Weblogs

Installed the Mac OS X version of Radio. Installed as a 're-install' keeping the old usernum, etc.

Here's what I did to reconstruct the same environment as the Mac OS 9.2.2 version I've been using up until now:

I've made the big switch. From now on my iBook is booting into OS X 10.1.2 by default. Most of the apps I use on a day by day basis have been ported to X. The few that aren't get used relatively infrequently so I'll bear Classic mode for these if need be. The once thing that was really holding me back was Eudora, but there's now a beta for X - albeit a bit flakey - which I downloaded and installed tonight. Same thing with Radio. Mac IE 5.1. BBEdit 6.5.1. Filemaker Pro 5.5...

I'll need to upgrade to the X version of Word eventually (regrettably). It wouldn't do any harm to replace the 256MB add-on memory with 512MB to go from 384MB to 640MB.

Wish me luck.

Clark Venables' Trichotomy:

Go to Dell's web site and choose a computer with the same features as the new top-of-the-line iMac (of course, the form factor isn't an option). When I do that, I get a Dell Dimension for $2,618.00. That's with a wireless card, with a 80 Gb hard drive, and with a DVD-recordable drive, but no iPhoto or iDVD. When I price the iMac, I get $1,898.00 (with the Airport card). Surprised? Dell may advertise lower prices, but by the time you swap out the cathode ray tube monitor for a 15' flat panel display, buy a Microsoft productivity suite (you MUST choose one), add a SuperDrive ($399), swap out the mouse for an optical one (standard with the iMac), the Dell actually costs more.

So even Jon Udell is trying out RU over at Jon's Radio.

Tom's Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Tom's Hardware Speed Project: Pentium 4, Over 3 GHz! - Can't Touch This: Breaking Through 3 GHz For The Pentium 4

We've pushed the Intel P4 to over 3 GHz, and here are the benchmarks to go along with it. If this is what the future holds for Intel CPUs then, we're in for a heck of a ride! And overclocking is back with a vengeance.

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Voices of Unreason >> A Scene is a sort of private joke. But one I think deserves wider exposure than the Conversant regulars ;-)

Dan Bricklin's Radio Weblog

I've been playing with the programming and upstreaming part of Radio. Really cool. Took me a while to figure things out, but I've written a simple "autoindexer" that lists .txt files in a directory and then creates an index of them with links to each as rendered html in a format I specified. Getting a bit of the hang of macros, etc. Hopefully, this will make it easier for me to explain what Radio can do to people (since they do ask...).

Dan also links to the docs he found useful.

Looks like Radio is going to expand the number of people scripting in UserTalk by orders of magnitude. Up until recently I would have laid bets that UserTalk was the least used programming language of all time - one of the coolest though, and one of my favourites!! I believe that this is about to change as more people pop the hood of Radio 8. Hopefully Matt is thinking of a follow-up to the Frontier 4 book.

Having fun again...

Dann Sheridan's Radio Weblog

There was a lot of bad news coming out of IDG today about web services. The diamond in the rough was Dave. I can tell you coming out of the bowels of a large consulting company, there are many proposals on the street beginning to be accepted that are not being talked about on the wire. I'm not talking about small consulting projects. I'm talking about huge proposals to revamp entire product lines of large companies. It's not coming -- it's here.

No doubt there will be a tsunami of discussion about weblogger's rankings in the UserLand Site Report:Ranking by Page-Reads chart. I was just about to pooh-pooh the phenomenon when I noticed that I'm at #64 just now ;-) Why? I don't know. It's not that I written anything insightful in the past few days. In fact, it's downright humbling to see all the new webloggers dancing to the tune of Radio and many seem so much more interesting than me ;-)!!

Just wait until I start insisting that my studenst read my weblog at the start of next semester. A captive audience. Would this be an abuse of my power d'you think ;-)

Another bummer today is the fact that Duncan Yo Yo leapfrogged over me to the #3 spot in the Google Search: duncan. I wouldn't mind so much except that the Duncan Yo Yo site is a construction zone:

"You may also have noticed that our webstore has changed A LOT! Since we have so many new items to add, we figured we would upgrade the store a bit. What you see now is sort of a "placeholder" store until the real one is ready again. Don't worry though, all of your orders still go to the same place, and will be filled as quickly as we can! We at Duncan apologize for any inconveniences this temporary store might cause, as well as the fact that it's mighty ugly. ;)"

PS In case you, dear reader, think that I am egomaniac rest assured that the above is all tongue in cheek. Besides, I'm upping the ranking of Duncan Yo Yo by linking to them!