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MacHack Keynote By Curses Developer Ken Arnold 21

Porsupah writes "A look at this year's MacHack keynote, from the MacFixIt folks. This year the opening keynote speaker was Ken Arnold [...] a member of the BSD team at the University of California at Berkeley and developed the curses library. [...] At Sun Microsystems, Ken was an original architect of the Jini platform."
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MacHack Keynote By Curses Developer Ken Arnold

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  • by Picass0 ( 147474 ) on Saturday June 21, 2003 @11:14PM (#6265186) Homepage Journal
    Go figure - He just got up on stage and started cursing at everyone!!!

    Funny thing is most people just thought it was Steve Jobs.
  • by Anonymous Coward
    Foiled again!
  • MacHack 18 (Score:5, Informative)

    by laredo ( 209012 ) on Sunday June 22, 2003 @10:39AM (#6267282)


    I was just about to try to start a post on this very topic.

    With all the "buzz" surrounding WWDC it seems MacHack 18 is getting the
    short end of the stick news wise. I was hoping you all could come up
    with more news/blogs/snippets whatever on the goings on in Dearborn
    than I have. I have googled, netnewswired and macsurfered till my eyes
    hurt , and these stories are all I can come up with, any help, or
    discussion?

    PS: Any links to MacMania II blogs score bonus points.

    MacHack [macfixit.com]
    18: Experiencing the Unstoppable

    by Shawn Platkus MacHack is a conference for professional developers
    who make their living developing for the Macintosh platform. The
    conference, now in its eighteenth year, has obviously had to deal with
    many changes throughout its history.

    MacHack [macfixit.com]
    18 Opens with a Keynote Address from Ken Arnold

    by Shawn Platkus As is traditional, MacHack 18 opened first
    thing Thursday morning at 12:00 am with its keynote address. This
    year the opening keynote speaker was Ken Arnold who is currently the
    Chief Architect of EventMonitor, In

    A Really Long Portage in the [cwob.com]
    Digital River : AI's Yellow Text : Well, here's one for the record
    books: I'm at MacHack , and my access to the 'net is even worse than it
    is at home.

    MacHack [macmegasite.com]
    Report

    Macmegasite : I'm now at MacHack with a usable network connection. The
    show is a lot smaller than previous years, but still lots of fun.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22, 2003 @02:55PM (#6268526)
    Macmegasite [macmegasite.com] reports:

    "Several changes were announced for next year's MacHack. The name is changing to Advanced Developers Hands On Conference (ADHOC) and the date is moving to the last week of July.

    The name change reflects a widening focus on open source systems and alternate platforms (but not Windows) and a management change."
  • by MichaelCrawford ( 610140 ) on Sunday June 22, 2003 @04:35PM (#6269087) Homepage Journal
    I wanted to fix something in my hack "FWDemo" before submitting it to the CD, but I didn't realize they were going to dupe them at the conference, so it didn't make it on.

    After I rest up, look for FWDemo here [goingware.com].

    FWDemo wasn't really meant to be a brilliant hack, so much as to be sample code for my talk on device drivers. But I didn't have a proper hack, so I showed off FWDemo.

    (What it does is use a kernel extension to work around OS X' exclusive hardware access policy, to do a little SCSI I/O to a mounted FireWire disk via SBP2. To be safe, it just does an inquiry, but you can use your imagination to do more creative things.)

  • No Rogue mention? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Mogomra ( 654796 )
    Jini platform, Schmini platform. Ken Arnold helped develop Rogue [wichman.org], and if that's not a worthwhile contribution to the human race worth mentioning, I don't know what is.

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