In the fall of 1989, I received a floppy disk in the mail, along with material promoting a new online service. At the time, I was enduring the high prices of CompuServe, since it was the best game in town, but I was sorely tempted by the lower price offered by America Online, then a […]

It makes a lot of sense. You may have Tiger in your sights, but you held off upgrading because of the infamous point-zero curse. Curse? Yes, it’s an axiom that the initial release of any software, especially something as complicated and potentially temperamental as an operating system, is going to be so ridden with bugs […]

Every good thing comes to an end, and Wednesday’s release of the 10.3.8 update for both the client and server versions of Panther ought to be the end. That is, except for possible security updates. Or at least that’s how it seems. After all, isn’t it time to fast track towards the release of Tiger? […]