The Hive Archive

I wasn’t aware of this until today:

Customers can immediately enable IP over FireWire and then connect two or more Macintosh systems by FireWire for file sharing, Internet sharing, or the use of any other IP-based service. IPv6 and zero-configuration networking are also supported. Many Macintosh products have 10/100 Ethernet and FireWire 400, making FireWire the fastest option for local area IP. For help activating IP over FireWire, open Mac Help and enter “IP over FireWire”. IP over FireWire can also be used as the starting point for new development, such as for cluster computing applications. Established IP services such as AFP, HTTP, FTP, SSH and TCP/IP can all be used on FireWire to support new development.

IP Over Firewire (apple.com)

Sweet! (yes, Gigabit Ethernet is faster and better supported, but I love having a wide range of devices on the Physical layer of the stack)

“David Weinberger’s new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categoreis at once, and search them in many ways. This is no dry book on taxonomy, but has the insight and wit you’d expect from the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and a former writer for Woody Allen.”

The video starts out a little slow and I kept thinking, “yes, this is obvious,” but it picks up pace and puts all the things that are happening in the taxonomy / folksonomy field into perspective. Also Melvil Dewey of the Dewey Decimal System, sounds a lot more insane than I ever realized. David Weinberger really gets to some issues that I hated about the way that Universities somewhat arbitrarily divide learning into Colleges.

How does it make sense that Computer Science and Painting are both in the College of Arts & Sciences, yet Electrical Engineering is in the College of Engineering, for example. Some important cross fertilization is missed simply because students are physically separated into different buildings. Damn you Aristotle, damn you! *Shakes fist*

Update: just read an article in the NY Times about a library abandoning the Dewey Decimal System