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The Haiku OS is an interesting little beast. It acts very stable, but of course still has a lot of strange bugs. I’ve been running it with the free vmware player. I don’t know where the creators of this plan on taking it, but Haiku looks like a promising young startup that just needs to get all the open source applications to run on it. It looks like it has been attracting developers. They recently had a talk at Google too.

I just added some ancient posts that I had put up on my first web site from 2004. I found them on the way back machine at archive.org. I’ve lost all the posts I had on my previous blog though. But, I may be able to track some of them down.

I have a quiz tomorrow that I really do not want to take, but such is life. Spring Break is finally drawing near. It would have been nice to have the break earlier in the semester. In any case, one of my favorite authors, Maxx Barry, is in town tonight. I am going to try to get a book signed for myself and another one for a friend of mine. The author will be at Borders tonight at seven.

I haven’t posted in a long while. I guess that I haven’t had much to say. I’m still waiting for some applications for internships to get answered. In any case, I was tempted to buy an Apple TV last night, until I looked up the tech specs.

I wonder what Apple was thinking when they decided to ship an inferior product. What I mean is that AppleTV only can play up to 720p resolution. The HD standard will be 1080p because it has already be chosen for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I’m shocked that this quality of playback is not supported. I was thinking of buying an Apple TV to play with, but this lack of power convinced me that Apple screwed up big time. I can personally deal with it only having a 40 gb hard drive on board, but I can’t understand why they would use a trashy 5400 rpm laptop drive. I can see why the price is only $300 dollars. Still, if they had also come out with another AppleTV that had a larger and faster hard drive and ran on one of their dual core processors, it would have received a huge number of purchases. The thing would cost more, but people would be willing to dish that out for a ‘puter with an HDMI out that would sit under their TV.