Weekend Links

• Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
• CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
• Dennis Ritchie [google.com]
• Dennis Ritchie [wikipedia.org]
• Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On [wired.com]
• Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies [wired.com]
• Thank You to Dennis Ritchie, Without Whom None of This Would Be Here [popsci.com]
• Oracle Virtual Desktop Client with USB smart card reader [oracle.com]
• Robert Galvin, former chairman and CEO of Motorola, dies at age 89 [engadget.com]

Mid-Week Links

It’s that time of the week where I’ve accumulated a bunch of open links that I need to get out of my running Opera session.

• Sysadmin Purity Test [bofh.net]
• Mad Hatter's tea party that is the eurozone crisis [guardian.co.uk]
• The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G [anandtech.com]
• The Days They Changed the Gauge [railfan.net]
• William Shatner Seeks Major Tom With Album of Space Jams [wired.com]

There really isn’t much of a theme to these or anything, but they’re either fairly interesting to read or just highly amusing.

Random Weekend Links

• Rare Sand Kitten Birth Gives Hope for Conservation [zooborns.com]
• Rise of the Machines: why we keep coming back to H.G. Wells' visions of a dystopian future [arstechnica.com]
• Forza 4 Endangered Species Ad w/Jeremy Clarkson [youtube.com]
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [debian.org]
• Thomas Jefferson renovations aim to connect facility with curriculum [fairfaxtimes.com]

Steve Jobs

I’ve collected a multitude of interesting links remembering the life of American icon (yes, I think that can be said given all he’s done), Steve Jobs. I can’t say I’ve ever bought a product of his, but I definitely respect the power he had over people and the passion/knowledge he had for his products

• Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 [wired.com]
• The Power of Taking the Big Chance [nytimes.com]
• Pixar's Secret: Rewrite, Re-edit, Recut [theatlantic.com]
• Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs
• The first time I used an Apple computer was... [arstechnica.com]
• In Praise of Bad Steve [theatlantic.com]
• Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I Knew [wsj.com]
• Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) [thewirecutter.com]
• Guest Column: Steve Jobs as Frank Lloyd Wright [wired.com]
• Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance [arstechnica.com]
• A 1985 TV Show Introduces the Macintosh [theatlantic.com]
• The Web's Best Tributes to Steve Jobs [popsci.com]
• Thanks Steve [oracle.com]
• With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells [nytimes.com]

 All the best to Steve’s friends and family. He has certainly left a profound impact on the world.