Sun Workstation: Still Crazy After All These Years

Sun introduces first Intel workstation in two decades | The Register

**In the ’80s Sun briefly marketed an Intel 80386-based machine, the Sun386i, designed to run SunOS and support DOS applications. But hey, we probably all did crazy stuff back then.

The new workstation is called the Sun Ultra 24.  But 20 years ago the 386i also had a cool code name: The Roadrunner.  Oh, that fast 386 processor, the promise of running IRAF side-by-side with Word, it was what every big-money scientist had to have.  I was the sysadmin: 90% of my time went to supporting 10% of the workstations.  Crazy indeed.

No more Boot Camp for El Tigre

Apple stops Boot Camp downloads

While licenses will expire when Leopard launches, Apple has confirmed that Windows partitions created with Boot Camp will continue to work. However, the Boot Camp Assistant, software that sets up and manages Windows partitions, will not. Apple also has said that it will stop delivering driver updates to beta users.

How Encyclopedias Work

A fascinating description of how encyclopedic knowledge is accumulated.  Its just that Web 2.0 and Wikipedia reveal the process in real time.

The Wikipedia War Over Dumbledore’s Sexuality

Some people apparently ran right to their computers and edited Dumbledore’s entry. This was considered obvious vandalism by some who hadn’t heard the news, so they reverted the page. So for a while, it was a war between the informed and the uninformed, with edits and reverts flying.