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    Newsletter #417 Preview: Is This Really the End of the PC Era?

    November 25th, 2007

    I often think that some tech pundits have nothing better to do than create fake issues for headlines and hit counts. In recent weeks, I’ve mentioned a few of the more offensive theories, but I think one that is truly bizarre is the claim that we are at the tail end of the PC era, […]


    Newsletter #415 Preview: Who Needs Leopard? What About Mac OS 10.6?

    November 11th, 2007

    If you believe some of the things written about Leopard in the past week or so, you may consider it the buggiest system upgrade ever! But, as with all things of this nature, that impression is a huge exaggeration. During Leopard’s first weekend on sale, some two million copies were moved as retail upgrade kits […]


    Living with Leopard: Book VII — So How Many Bugs Does Leopard Really Have?

    November 6th, 2007

    Some years back, one of the developers for Mac OS 7.0 told me about a very obscure bug that had been allowed to persist in the operating system. It seemed that something would crash on the twentieth level of a new folder if you did something to it, such as create another new folder nested […]


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    Living with Leopard: Book V — Second Week: Same as the First

    November 4th, 2007

    If you believe some of the things written about Leopard in the past week or so, you may consider it the buggiest system upgrade ever! But, as with all things of this nature, that impression is a huge exaggeration. During Leopard’s first weekend on sale, some two million copies were moved as retail upgrade kits […]