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In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorized clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981
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links for 2008-07-03
July 02, 2008
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Tags: computer, history, microsoft, os, pc
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links for 2008-02-20
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emotion is what motivated this post – it’s pretty damn intriguing…
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website that are much more than websites
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an overview of the future development of the internet, with a certain fascination for semantic web, it also speak about web of data, and a kind of ambient findability like series scenarios
February 20, 2008
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Tags: api, application, data, database, innovation, internet, mashup, microsoft, news, object, semantic, services, tangible, technology, tools, trend, web2.0, writing
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links for 2008-02-08
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Spotlight can receive plugin. This article describes how to actually develop one which will index the content of Stickies.
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this article describes a bit of the troubles along the way for Google if Microsoft grasp the Yahoo business
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This an area I never really searched into: Spotlight plugins – it seems like there are a lot of gems; this one for example brings the top ten Google results.
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This one is another Spotlight plugin: Delicious Indexer – it will index your online bookmarks and lets you retrieve them from the desktop.
From LSO’s Chronicle
Russian 20th-century music is inseparable from history. As film composers, Shostakovich and Prokofiev both got used to the idea of providing accompaniments to images of great moments from their country’s past. But few have chronicled their own times as relentlessly as Shostakovich.
Variously fêted and reviled by the Soviet authorities, and constantly treading a fine line between triumph and disaster – sometimes even between life and death – his desire to compose never wavered, and thus it is that the late symphonies featured in this series offer an image of the postwar decades in music of unfailingly intense expression, from the ‘optimistic tragedy’ of the Tenth to the descriptive power of the Eleventh, and the dark contemplations of the Fourteenth to the quirky irony of the Fifteenth. Yet out of necessity Shostakovich’s is also an art rich in ambiguity, its surface messages often seemingly undermined by steely irony and double meaning.
Three decades after his death these great works still have the power both to fascinate and to reach deep into our hearts and minds.
From Wikipedia: Shostakovich’s page:
After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky (Symphony No. 1), Shostakovich switched to modernism (Symphony No. 2 and The Nose) before developing a hybrid of styles with Lady Macbeth and the state-suppressed Fourth Symphony. This hybrid style ranged from the neo-classical (with Stravinskian influences) to the post-romantic music (with Mahlerian influences). His tonality involved much use of modality and some astringent neo-classical harmonies à la Hindemith and Prokofiev. His music frequently includes sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque.
February 08, 2008
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Tags: accessibility, apple, application, archive, browser, code, delicious, desktop, google, london, metadata, microsoft, music, orchestra, osx, plugin, Plugins, search, software, spotlight, yahoo
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links for 2008-02-06
I met Goldin+Senneby at a meeting at Gasworks yesterday, and we didn’t had time to discuss more about what they were doing – there was much stuff to organise for the incoming ‘Disclosures’. When I came back at home, after the meeting, I was really pleased to discover their work. This image, particulary struck my mind – I instantly recognised the landscape.
- Goldin+Senneby » Blog Archive » After MicrosoftThe most distributed image ever is being phased out. What remains is a hill in Sonoma Valley, California. In the context of this project we have re-visited the hill. “After Microsoft” tells the story of a January day in the late 90’s when the hill [...](tags: photography art gasworks microsoft icon desktop background)
February 06, 2008
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Tags: art, background, desktop, gasworks, icon, microsoft, photography
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