Dec 95 URLs
Volume Number: 11
Issue Number: 12
Column Tag: Uniform Resource Locators
Uniform Resource Locators 
By Jim Straus, URLs@mactech.com
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Latest Updates
New Technologies
OpenMac http://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/openmac/
NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/
MacLinux http://nucleus.ibg.uu.se/maclinux/
Portable Net. Graphics http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/PNG/
QuickDraw GX Fanclub http://www.ixmedia.com/quickgx/
Lawrence D’Oliveiro http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/ldo/gx/intro.html
Other Programmer Resources
ALM (KeyQuencer)
ftp://ftp.alpcom.it/software/mac/LMontalcini/html/alm_home.html
http://www.scruznet.com/~crawford/Computers/macsbug.html
Unofficial Future Basic http://www.ids.net/~paumic/FutureBasic/
Jumbo-Programming Mac http://www.jumbo.com/prog/mac/
MacMania http://www.europa.com/~bubba/mac/appleindex.html
Fabrizio Oddone
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/www_student/apple/FabrizioOddone/
PowerPlant Dream Team http://petrified.cic.net/powerplant-dt
Word Services
http://www.scruznet.com/~crawford/WordServices/wdsvindex.html
Vendors, Products and Miscellaneous
Aladdin Software Security http://www.aks.com/
Be, Inc. http://www.be.com/
ForeFront Group (WebWhacker) http://www.ffg.com/
MacMall http://WWW.MacMall.com/web2/MacMall/MMMainPage.html
MacWarehouse http://www.warehouse.com/
MacZone http://www.maczone.com/maczone/
MIND (formerly MacDNS) http://www.dronf.org/mind/mindInfo.html
MindVision Software http://www.mindvision.com/
Piazza http://www.piazza.com/channels/piazza/piazza.html
Star Nine http://www.starnine.com/
Stone Tablet http://www.teleport.com/~stack/
Just in time for the holiday seasons, three of the Macintosh mail-order catalogs
are on-line. Do all your buying for your Mac friends without having to leave your
screen.
MacMall http://WWW.MacMall.com/web2/MacMall/MMMainPage.html
MacWarehouse http://www.warehouse.com/
MacZone http://www.maczone.com/maczone/
In case you haven’t noticed, MIND (Mac Internet Name Daemon) is now the name of
what used to be called MacDNS. Apple bought the right to the MacDNS name from the
Jourvian Group. MIND is a Macintosh implementation of the standard Unix Domain
Name Server. This allows a Mac to manage of a domain (i.e. MacTech.com) on the
Internet. Normally, when someone tries to access WWW.MacTech.com for the first
time, their domain name server will ask one of the well known “.com” servers who to
ask about MacTech. Then a request will be sent to that server. MIND (or its
equivalent) allows a Macintosh to be that server. It used to be that if you were setting
up a Macintosh Web server, you still needed a Unix host to be the name server. With
MIND the same Macintosh can act as the name server as well, without relying on any
non-Macintosh servers.
MIND (formerly MacDNS) http://www.dronf.org/mind/mindInfo.html
This month we’ll look at some mailing lists you might want to join (besides Semper Fi,
mentioned last month). The first is the PowerPlant Dream Team. This is a self-help
group trying to learn all about PowerPlant. They plan on picking projects and having
teams develop them and share the learning to the entire group. If you’re trying to
scale the steep learning curve on PowerPlant, this looks like a good place to hang out.
The Dream Team is being organized by Steven Jovanovic, who helped organize the team
that created FilterTop. He is often found on the IRC channel #macdev.
PowerPlant Dream Team http://petrified.cic.net/powerplant-dt
OpenMac is several efforts porting various flavors of Unix to the PowerMac
platform. These include MacLinux and MacBSD, which are both public domain Unixes.
There are mailing lists available for both ports accessible from the OpenMac web page.
I should also mention that Apple and IBM are supposed to be porting AIX to the
PowerMac and Tenon has recently released MachTen 4.0 for the PowerMac. For those
interested in Unix on a PowerMac, check out this site.
OpenMac http://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/openmac/
The QuickDraw GX fan club has two mailing lists for those interested in GX. The
first is general discussion of GX and the second is for developers using GX in their
products. If you are interested in QuickDraw GX, you should check out the fan club.
QuickDraw GX Fanclub http://www.ixmedia.com/quickgx/
Neat Non-Macintosh Site of the Month
This month, the site’s related to the Macintosh. Be, Inc. introduced their BeBox
recently. Be is the brain-child of Jean-Louis Gassée and the company is populated
with several well known Macintosh developers. The BeBox looks like it might be an
interesting platform (with two PowerPCs and development support from
Metrowerks). It’ll be interesting to see if they can successfully sell a new platform.
Be, Inc. http://www.be.com/
Well, that’s it for this month. As always, if you find something interesting, or
have updates, send them to URLs@MacTech.com
Thanks this month to Kenneth Trueman, Mike Crawford, Alessandro Levi
Montalcini, Ron Hale-Evans, Bill Moore, Carl B. Constantine, Stephen Jovanovic,
Andrew C. Williams, Mike Crawford, Steven Kortze, and many others for their
contributions for their suggestions and pointers to new and old sites. Apologies to those
who contributed to the November list. Thanks for November contributions and
suggestions to Mark Richter, Johan Dahl, Scott S. Lawton, Dave Koziol, Paul Celestin,
Ray Sauers, Igor Mikolic-Torreira, Patrick Woolsey, and G. Neufeld.
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