Xavier Defrang

Another great Panther related news for the terminal freaks : Apple finally dropped their classic BSD vi in favor of vim!

Cool hack of the day : make music with your Wi-Fi card. Has anybody already ported this to OS X?

Some thougts after Steve Jobs Apple MacWorld Keynote speech.

• The new 17" PowerBook is just a desktop killer whereas the 12" looks more like a good-looking expensive toy. The new USB printer aware, 802.11g Airport Extreme is also a pretty cool product.
• The Safari web browser is fast indeed but why the hell KHTML instead of Gecko? As long as Safari lacks tabbed browsing and more customizable features, I'll stick to Chimera.
• Keynote looks to me like the killer app for corporate switchers. Just bring your Mac in a meeting and blow the crap out of every other tasteless PowerPoint slideshow with advanced compositing and font rendering of Quartz Extreme. The software looks also way easier to handle than PowerPoint (oh boy these smart rulers!). That's a really good surprise!
• It looks like that Steve was either too busy demo'ing cheesy family-oriented iApps or he was still afraid of the UNIX heads switching to OS X since he completely "forgot" to announce X11!

Looking for a cool replacement for Mac OS X Terminal.App? Give a try to iTerm, It's cool and free as in free speech...

I just got my brand new toy... hence the lack of update of this site! I've been way to busy playing around with Jaguar... now everything looks fine and I can update my blog using my brand new 802.11 home network. Running bleeding-edge desktop and graphic applications on the same machine that runs Apache and a UNIX shell is too cool to be true! After more than a decade using a PC running various operating systems, I finally switched, the UNIX core of Jaguar being the main reason as I only feel 100% productive when I know I can have a shell at hand any time...

An implementation of Tetris in Bourne shell script!

I give up! I think the new 1GHz PowerBook will finally make me switch! I'm ordering mine next week, one more UNIX geek moves to OS X.

As I really start to feel the need to switch, I think this O'Reilly book will really come handy! I also hope to see quickly some Python bindings for Cocoa so I don't have to learn Objective-C to play with that beast. But first I have to spare some euros to buy a laptop...

Microsoft's XBox Live service has been pre-empted by a Linux-based web-server invented by a group of European programmers.

Microsoft is to showcase a site of Unix tools next week's LinuxWorld Conference.

The port of Linux on the Xbox is on the way... Soon you'll be able to thank MS for selling Linux-enabled high-end PC at the lowest price ever by making them losing more than USD 195 for every sold item...