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Mittwoch, 10. April 2002

People are raving about Tinderbox — und ich? Muss das Warten auf eine OS X- oder Win2k-Variante wohl oder übel ertragen. Da kann man gequotet gewesen sein wie man will.

[create Carl Franz]: "Although I spend a lot of time in the wilderness, when I return to the Real World, I'm something of a closet geek, always looking for a better mousetrap and the perfect, "killer app". You may not share my fascination with computers and software, so go ahead, skip the next few paragraphs if you're not interested in a remarkable, revolutionary new tool for writers, researchers, and do-it-yourself web publishers."

Peter Praschl: "[...] Hannes empfahl die Tinderbox. Es war einer der nützlichsten Ratschläge seit langem, wollte ich durchsagen. Die Tinderbox erledigt genau das, wofür ich dringend ein Arbeitserleichterungs-Werkzeug brauchte, nämlich die Organisation von Arbeit, die aus vielen Einfällen, vielen Kleinigkeiten, vielen Einzelschritten besteht und an der mehrere Leute beschäftigt sind. Projektarbeit also. Man kann mit der Software [auch] Gartenanbaupläne erstellen und überwachen."

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Thomas Watson Sr.: "I keep telling my people that no matter how small the loss, it's not a profit."

"Thomas Watson Sr., the man who almost single-handedly built the International Business Machines (IBM) behemoth, had a history of run-ins with the government. Back around the turn of the century, Watson was a rising, young sales executive for John Patterson at National Cash Register. Since NCR's cash registers were of an unusually high quality--and thus lasted essentially forever--there had sprung into existence a lively market for used machines. The problem, from NCR's perspective, was that the used market was depressing prices for NCR's new machines."

Solution: Buy all the used-CR sellers, dictate the prices again.

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Web Services à la Microsoft: $15k "Platform Access Fee" — [create MapPoint .NET] ist zwar interessant, nur zum Spass wird man sich den Spass aber nicht leisten — microsoft.com/mappoint/net/buy/

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Hätte der heutige Tag etwaiger Rettung bedurft, so wäre sie in dieser Form erschienen. Freude!

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Scheduled for tomorrow: David Ness on the "I/O Phenomenon"

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The MIT LCS in [create 1975]: A Brochure.

"The Laboratory is fortunate in having a variety of resources, about to be linked by a local data network. These resources consist of three PDP/10 computers, including a powerful [create PDP-10]/80 system, and several smaller machines comprising a total of seven million bytes of primary memory and almost one billion bytes of secondary memory."

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