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Just left the conference of Dina Mehta – Social Tools for Research and Collaboration. It the best one so far. She talked about the blog/wiki/network collaboration that grew out of an collaborative effort when the December 2004 Tsunami hit. They had a chaotic environment and operation but from that, order slowly become apparent. The most interesting point for me is that the reason she thinks it worked was that people were helping out in the fields of expertise they had.

Subethaedit

Yesterday, we had 5 people cooperating on the same document, at Building of Basecamp. At the end of the day, 1400 lines where written by us. Last night I wrote about that the old way, pen and paper, so I have to copy that into here sometime later, about the rules you could use in those situations.

Bonjour to you too

Check this out: Amazing the list of people here… 450 persons from all over… Just starting.

Just left the conference of Dina Mehta – Social Tools for Research and Collaboration. It the best one so far. She talked about the blog/wiki/network collaboration that grew out of an collaborative effort when the December 2004 Tsunami hit. They had a chaotic environment and operation but from that, order slowly become apparent. The most interesting point for me is that the reason she thinks it worked was that people were helping out in the fields of expertise they had.

Let's try this again

Nuno, let’s try this again: both two posts I wrote about this minor issue (the one you quoted in your initial article and my response to that article) are not against x86. Please re-read them. It’s about Intel. Not x86, but Intel. That’s what I’m skeptical about (and thanks for the explanation about British and American spellings). It’s not that I don’t like x86, I use them every day of my life, in all the servers I buy, or the servers I recommend buying.

Sharing the pain

The new PowerBook saga continues. What will I do next? Well, I really don’t know. For now, I’m sharing the pain with others. Questions to be answered: how long after Mactel shows up will Apple support PowerPC hardware? Will see.

It's not about x86, Nuno

Nuno didn’t read my posts closely enough, it seems: Some people (lots of them in fact) seem to be sceptical of this and wonder why the heck would Apple switch from a so far successful hardware architecture. I’m not skeptical (ant not sceptical, according to Mac OS X spelling check) about x86 choice by Apple. I’m skeptical about the choice of vender of x86 architecture. My feeling is that Intel is not innovation in the last years and they don’t seem to have a strategy to x84-64 (compare Itanium sales to Opteron).

Questions needing answers

Going forward, I’ll see lot’s of talk about Apple and Intel. As Rui as told you, as long gcc runs, I’m ok. I use my Mac mostly in UNIX-mode, so I’m not in too worried. Now, the only thing that is still unanswered in my mind, is why Intel. Why not AMD. Also the 32bit question. So I decided to keep a log of my questions (and hopefully answers): Why did Apple decide to go with Intel and not AMD?