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15 Sep 2012
Port the Present into the Past
Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about obsolescence. Do older machines really have to be cut off from the latest OS and application updates? Does higher-level software design (and open source data formats) help or hurt?
Links:
- Andrew Pontious tweet: “I’ve resigned myself to a certain futility about retweeting something from a person who has many more followers than I do.”
- The Road Back to Tumblr « Red Sweater Blog
- Hibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline conversions, tweet lookup, and more
- Obsolescence « Wikipedia
- Planned obsolescence « Wikipedia
- Market segmentation « Wikipedia
- Andrew Pontious tweet: “Sad to see all those dead PowerPC apps on my machine.”
- VMware Fusion: Run Windows on Mac, Virtualization for Mac Lion
- Macintosh 128K « Wikipedia
- Package (OS X) « Wikipedia
- Zip (file format) « Wikipedia
- SQLite Home Page
Rejected Episode Titles:
- Retweet Away to That Good Night
- RAM Used to Be My Bottleneck
- Confusing You With That Other Andrew
- Core Data in a Jar
- All This Dancing Around Doesn’t Come for Free
- Throwing Themselves out of Four-Story Infinite Loop Windows
- Long Story Short: I Agree with You
- All Those Machines That Still Light Up and Work
- Hoping x86 Would Die a Long Time Ago
- Which Is Terrible, and No One Should Use It
- If You’re Lucky, You Get V-Tables
- The Original 128K Could Think About 4,000 Objects
- The Bad Old Days of Binary Formats
- Straining the Future Edge of Things