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The Sendo Papers: Microsoft's …

The Sendo Papers: Microsoft’s Master Plan Basically Microsoft was desperate to sign on an OEM for it’s Smartphone and got Sendo on board by investing in them and promising that they would be a launch partner. However, Microsoft then used the industry knowledge garnered from Sendo and the deal itself to go out and recruit other manufacturers like Orange. When that was done, Microsoft did what they needed to do to screw Sendo.

I isolated the problem I had w …

I isolated the problem I had with PHP 4.3.0
The page that hung had two include() commands in it. They included files on other servers through “http://”
Both server names resolved fine, and the php.ini allow_url_fopen.. directive was set on, and finally, it worked fine in PHP 4.2.2 so it annoys me that it broke in 4.3.0
I’ll submit a bug report to php.net later..

Mark looks at the MacWorld ann …

Mark looks at the MacWorld announcements. He used Safari to browse my weblog and only got a green background. In Konqueror on my machine (Red Hat 8.0) the browser does display my weblog, with only a few errors so there’s obviously some divergence between the two. Here’s a screenshot of Konqueror for you to compare.
Mark also pointed at Apple’s efforts to port X11 to Mac OS X. If only Macs were cheaper..

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