Driving to Laptopia

"The first part of Doc's adventures with a new ThinkPad: what needs to be addressed before Linux laptops can make it in the real user world."...

Actually the above strapline doesn't do the story justice. Doc himself refers to this as Affrus 1.0:

"Affrus 1.0 is an integrated Perl editing and debugging environment for Mac OS X. It wraps Perl in a standard, familiar, and intuitive user interface."

Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor -- Here's how to write a shell script that watches the news from Slashdot.org. After applying the code in this article by Dave Taylor, coauthor of Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther, all you'll have to do is launch the Terminal to see the latest Slash headlines.