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I suspect this may be true

Arthur — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:37:42 +0000

It’s almost always a permissions problem. Seriously.

Ruby, Ruby, Ruby Baby

Arthur — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:41:44 +0000

Wow! My plea for Ruby On Rails help on the TextDrive Forum is currently the number one result when Googling Ruby-On-Rails OS-X.

I haven’t got it sorted yet, by the way. Can anyone spot where I’m going wrong?

Fedora

Arthur — Wed, 05 May 2004 22:55:00 +0000

Since I bought P. a new ThinkPad and regained possession of my ancient 390E, I’ve decided to rid my house of Windows 98 and dip my toe in the Linux pool. I used Nicholas Petreley’s Official Fedora Companion which comes with a Fedora installation package on two CDs. Things have gone pretty smoothly, as far as I can tell. I haven’t tried wireless yet (supposedly a tricky area) but I had no trouble getting on the internet with my ethernet card. And you sure can’t beat the price!

Bumpy Road to OS X

Arthur — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:43:00 +0000

Jeffrey Zeldman points to a discussion at MacCentral forum as justifying Apple’s decision to extend the life of OS 9 "a bit longer". As I read the discussion, these people have no intention of ever switching to OS X, Quark or no Quark.

Elsewhere, John Gruber wants Apple to replace the OS X finder with one that "builds on" the one in OS 9:

So imagine if the OS X Finder were redesigned to appeal to Mac OS 9 users. By simply changing nothing other than the Finder, the entire “Mac OS X” experience would instantly feel much more familiar to millions of Mac users.

Of course, it would instantly feel more foreign to switchers like me who’ve never used the “classic” OS. It’s becoming apparent that many Mac lovers will never willingly switch to OS X. They don’t like the Finder, the dock, the icons or the muli-user underpining. I suppose Apple can continue shipping OS 9.2 for years but I think pressure for revisions to the old system would begin to build. Even Microsoft couldn’t justify development on two separate operating systems forever; Apple can’t afford it at all.

Reports of Its Death have Been Exaggerated

Arthur — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:05:00 +0000

Apple has evidently backed down from its plan to have all its systems boot only OS X come January (via [lomo]blog).

“To accommodate a minority of our pro customers still running Mac OS 9 applications such as QuarkXPress, Apple will continue to offer a 1.25GHz dual-processor Power Mac that will boot into Mac OS 9 until June,” Apple said in a statement.