In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.
CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.
[Article #475]
This is interesting, and a smart idea for Apple. By taking a [...]
If I get a new console I’ll probbaly get a wii to play with my son. The thing is, I’ve delayed since we’ve had too many other costs to worry about. And at the same time I hadn’t thought getting a Wii was that big of a deal. After all the Targets here [...]
A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, will be sold in a Pebble Beach, Calif., auction in August.
The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Otto Benz of Germany built their first experimental gasoline-powered cars (The two were working independently of [...]
A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.
But [...]
Chizen (Adobe CEO) was at San Jose State University in front of the engineering school, and discussed the challenges of the competitive software market.
…Chizen was straightforward in his assessment of Microsoft as a bullying tech power – a perspective that’s not surprising given Redmond’s latest moves challenging Adobe’s strongholds in PDF, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash/Flex. [...]
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Despite having been on the job for nine months, RadioShack CEO Julian Day said Monday that he still has “no idea” how the home electronics store manages to stay open.
RadioShack CEO”There must be some sort of business model that enables this company to make money, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is,” [...]
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My wife is relived and yet sad…It is official, I am NOT the father of Ana Nicole’s baby.
[Rob Culbertson]
But I think Rob stated it best. Who really cares. The only thing that should matter is that Birkhead take good care of the baby. As sensationalism aside, this article noted the baby isn’t worth the [...]
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Moving sucks, huh? And waiting for your Woot-Off order to be shipped because we were moving is almost as bad, although you probably didn’t throw your back out or anything. We figured that since so many people waited so long for so many orders because of our recent move, we should at least “invite” you [...]
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With bidding stalled on some of the least desirable residences in Detroit’s collapsing housing market, even the fast-talking auctioneer was feeling the stress.”Folks, the ground underneath the house goes with it. You do know that, right?” he offered.
After selling house after house in the Motor City for less than the $29,000 it costs to buy [...]
Continue reading about Houses only a little more then a cost of a car
- Dilbert comics stolen (approx. 250,000,000)
I’m probably leaving out a few things. The Dilbert comic theft might be an underestimate. I have documentation of 25 million thefts from the Internet alone in the past 12 months. It adds up.
Famous musicians get downloaded a lot. But they don’t produce a new song every day, as I [...]
