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San Francisco, California. January, 2002.

This site aids my work as a computer consultant providing support for individuals, small businesses, and schools. I also use it to develop Sidelines and Debates on topics that interest me. These topics may bear on computing issues and/or provide a means to test web tools and design.

The Macintosh is my preferred tool and primary area of expertise, though I also work with the Windows family.

I believe that networking protocols are developing in more interesting directions than operating systems.


1 Identify my computing needs

Archive Analyze Communicate Simulate
tools, guidelines, and email the technical tsunamis that are changing all our lives. with clients and colleagues

2 Plan deployment.

Purchase Setup Network Website
I purchase equipment/software through mail order houses, such as PC and MacConnection, and CompUSA. These are reliable vendors who give good pre/ post sales support. In the early days I read all the manuals.

My advise still is: read them and keep them.

 

 

 

I contract with pair.com for internet access and a web server. I use Adobe's GoLive, Barebones' BBEdit, and raw coding as necessary.

3 Track operating system(s)

Macs work! NT serves. UNIX
MacOS X has Unix at its core. It is based on a Mach micro kernel, roughly corresponding to Mach 2.5, integrated with an implementation of BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution) 4.4.

 

... Scan the horizon

Security Bandwidth The Farther Shore
Nothing private or proprietary is posted to this site, so security is not an issue. I try to design all pages to download over a 56k modem in less than 15 seconds.

The current exceptions are dreaming and spines!

Dave Winer's scripting.com is an inspiration for this site. Dave is constantly scanning that farther shore, and his company, Userland, is a model-in-progress for how to create community, software, and business over the Internet. In that order.
Esther Dyson's Newsletter (check out the free abstracts) is one of the best sources of information about the future of the Internet. That's no accident- she is Freeman's daughter (and George's sister!).

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Created 7/7/98. Last Updated 3/5/98

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