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Nat Torkington
Aug. 19, 2002 11:02 PM
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I received a lot of mail about my article on things I wish I'd known about TiBooks and iBooks. Here's the collected errata ...

BluaP pointed out that the HP 815C deskjet worked just fine with a driver from HP. Faisal also pointed out that OS X supports several bubblejet printers. Neither piece of knowledge helps me, though, as my laserjet isn't a bubblejet. It sucks to be me.

Both Faisal and BluaP pointed me towards VersionTracker, which I'm kicking myself for forgetting. My only gripe with VersionTracker is that you can't select which license, and the large amount of commercial software means that most of its listings aren't of interest to me.

BluaP agreed that there's more shareware than freeware, though that's changing. That's cool. I havefriends and acquaintances who take their shareware seriously, but I'm just too damn cheap ...

John Engler also pointed me at VersionTracker, but gave up several other web site leads: Mac Minute (news), RAILhead Design (good information usually on rumors), xicons.com (best OS X xicons site out there, he says), ResExcellence (site for people who tinker and hack their systems), and MacDesktops.com (glorious desktop images). Because, you know, I didn't have enough web sites to visit every morning!

Thanks to John, Faisal, and BluaP for their comments, and to you for reading of my adventures in X.

--Nat

Nat Torkington is conference planner for the Open Source Convention, OSCON Europe, and other O'Reilly conferences. He was project manager for Perl 6, is on the board of The Perl Foundation, and is a frequent speaker on open source topics. He cowrote the bestselling Perl Cookbook.

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