Link: 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg
Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise!
I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world.
Link: Lights Out Management
So if Apple is recommending people migrate to Mac Pros or Mac Minis in place of the now-canceled XServe, are we going to see LOM (overview article linked in the title) implemented in one or both? That’d be pretty sexy shit if they did.
Link: Daring Fireball: Dish Executive Claims Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry
In short: in the face of popular new technology, he wants things to stay they were before that technology existed. Good luck with that strategy, TV executives.
Just in case you want to know what IP address an SSH client is coming from, or what address they used to log in (such as internal vs. external addresses), the ssh daemon puts a bit of useful stuff in environment variables for you. $SSH_CLIENT and $SSH_CONNECTION are the most useful.
Link: Why Google TV will fail, in one sentence
Looks like they’ve done Google TV’s user experience up even better than they did Android’s. User experience FTW, indeed.
Link: Tethering an iPhone only takes ssh « Rob Garth - Mildly Useful Stuff
Need to try this out. If it works, it’s way cheaper than $20 for MyWi (which admittedly does more), and perfectly reasonable for the very few occasions I’d want to use my phone’s 3G connection on my laptop. Wouldn’t want to do it often, though.
Link: Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today
By John Scalzi: a list of things his assorted privileges allow him to ignore that should be acknowledged.
For a change, I’d also encourage you to read the comments on this post.
Here’s someone who starts with the user experience, who believes that industrial design shouldn’t be compared to what other people were doing with technology products but it should be compared to people were doing with jewelry.
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What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do—but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist.
The remote in question.
Link: Engadget reviews Sony’s Internet TV (powered by Google TV)
Although both of your thumbs rest naturally on the controls up top, you’re not supposed to use them at the same time — you can either arrow around the UI with the left thumb or control the mouse with the finicky optical pad under your right. The two things are totally separate, so you’re using the arrows and you accidentally click the right button, you end up selecting whatever’s under the mouse cursor and going off in a totally different direction. It’s weird, especially since it’s supposed to feel like a PS3 controller — a controller that generally uses both thumb controls together very effectively.