Funk Babblings

A couple weeks ago I discovered a hidden cache of Macintosh Powerbooks sitting unused at work, and managed to take possession of one of them. I figured these are good machines and it shouldn't be too hard to bring them up to date for use in our current environment (a mix of MacOS X, Linux, and Windows).

I was wrong.

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I'm sitting here at the Hyatt Regency Columbus at the second Ohio LinuxFest, and so far the most interesting talk was about Security-Enhanced Linux. But it wasn't interesting only for the obvious reasons; it was also interesting because it reminded me of some mildly annoying namespace clashes in technology:

When someone mentions "MAC", it could be a reference to:
- An Apple Macintosh
- Medium Access Control on an ethernet network, or the hardware address used in that protocol
- Mandatory Access Control security

Then we also have:
- eMacs, the type of Apple computers
and
- Emacs, the "extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor."


I've also learned enough about FreeBSD here that I might give that another try; the last time I tried it was in the late 90s with version 3.something.