Stories of Apple

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Old and new tales from Cupertino's Infinite Loop / Storie vecchie e nuove della mela di Cupertino
Stories of Apple3d ago
MattR4d ago
Digging through some old files and found this, something for your xmas tree
Show threadStories of AppleJun 25
@siracusa Tahoe beta 2 dark mode looks like a discarded theme from a Kaleidoscope 13 years old enthusiast…
Stories of AppleJun 21
Marcin WicharyJun 21

Another cool discovery today. Completely by accident found a manual for some third-party Apple Lisa software.

I guess this makes sense, although Lisa was so unpopular I never ever even thought of non-Apple software for it.

But here we go, desktop publishing software for the poor Lisa!

It’s funny how at work I am basically building software like this, 40 years later.

cc @glennf

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/compugraphic/201035-001_Compugraphic_Cg_Compose_2_Personal_Composition_System_Mar85.pdf

Stories of AppleJun 16
Gabe SchuylerMay 23

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Just a QR Code

Stories of AppleJun 14
Tom Lyon ✅Jun 14

OTD 2005: #SunMicrosystems open-sources #Solaris. 20 years!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/

Show threadStories of AppleJun 9
@marioguzman @marceloexc well, they "beta" change their minds asap.
Show threadStories of AppleJun 9
@marioguzman geez, what an amateurish job…
Stories of AppleJun 9
Marco ArmentJun 9
First swear word in Apple's official documentation? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/speechtranscriber/transcriptionoption/etiquettereplacements
Stories of AppleJun 8
Riccardo MoriJun 8
We won't have another Bill Atkinson, and boy does technology need one like him today.
Stories of AppleJun 8
Fonts In UseJun 8

RIP #BillAtkinson (1951–2025). During his time at #Apple, he was central to the development of the graphical user interface of the Lisa and later the Macintosh, and is best known for creating MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.

Atkinson is also credited for designing Venice, a chancery script bitmap font. Along with #SusanKare’s designs, it was one the “City” fonts that came with the original #Macintosh. https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/6337/bill-atkinson

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Show threadDen of EarthJun 14

@kkarhan @aka_pugs
By 1998, Solaris was a popular choice among the Top500 supercomputers. By 2005 it was down to crumbs as Linux had largely taken over, and the rest is history. Today, the OS share is 100% Linux.

I still run OpenSolaris in a VM box on my home laptop just for old times' sake, but alas the ship has sailed.

Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 14

@DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX.

And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...

Show threadBruce D PorterJun 15
@DenOfEarth @kkarhan @aka_pugs it's not 100% Linux, there are still a lot of Solaris (10 and 11) servers out there.
Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 15

@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...

-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745

One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.

  • Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.

Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...

Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...

  • Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)

@DenOfEarth@mas.to @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I know. Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX. And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...

Infosec.Space
Show threadDen of EarthJun 16

@kkarhan @ytc1 @aka_pugs @libreoffice @openzfs
Agree with you on everything except why NT won the server battle.

Solaris had a lot of very elegant mechanisms that could only be configured and controlled from the command line. And while this means you can script things, it's also a pain in the ass and hard to find expert staff.

NT had similar tools, but everything was point and click. Resize a partition? Drag this bar. Anyone can figure it out, which makes apprenticeship and hiring easier.

Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 16

@DenOfEarth @ytc1 @aka_pugs well #WindowsNT owned the workstation market because #Vendors like #SGI & #Sun failed to innovate...

  • Abeit sgi hals self-inflicted that by removing the reasons to buy their stuff when they switched to #Itanium #CPU|s and #nvidia #GPU|s and not developing #IRIX any further!

#SunMicrosystems at least didn't stall in terms of #Software, but once #Oracle acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for "#IP infringement" and "License Violations" they basically made using anythibg but #Linux a bad choice on #Servers!