Recently i tried it. It works great. I even created the new logo using GIMP over the University network. Now, many people might think “What’s the point? You can install GIMP on Mac anyway”.

Well my answer is that for the few of us that are still PPC, some x11 apps don’t work, also sometimes we just don’t have enough processing power to do the task as well as all our other activities.

The command in an SSH terminal to do X Forwarding is:

ssh -X <username>@<hostname>

Since everything is going over SSH, it’s all encrypted as well.

For those who haven’t used MacFuse, get it.

It basically allows for you to make software based filesystems. There’s a Google Video that explains it better.

For all of those who have used it. Go download the new version, it offers some garbage collection features plus more stability.

I use WebKit as my browser. It runs “inside” Safari but works a lot faster. There are usually nightly builds of WebKit available. However it’s a pain to keep going back and forth to the website.

NightShift is an application that does this for you. It’ll download the latest version, and then update it, and then open it up. 

Using iCal for an “alarm” at 6 a.m. every morning, i’ll always know that my WebKit is the latest one.
Although there’s a home page in WebKit that tells you if it’s the latest version, i used this hack to stop that. 

Overall, people using WebKit should notice an increase in rendering performance and some pages might even look better if you’ve moved from a less-developed browser. (I’m looking at you IE)

I’ve just read an article around AJAX. It’s listing the negative effects on community that the AJAX style technologies have. For example, the fact that old browsers don’t support the javascript required, or people who turn Javascript off because……i don’t know.

Although AJAX can often be pretty, it’s not always a good idea to use it just for the sake of it. I’m talking to you Facebook.

Article Located Here.

I have tried to use several IRC Applications for my Mac.
I have tried:

• irssi (ported from Mac Ports)
• X-Chat Aqua
• Colloquy
• Telnet (well, i am a Computer Scientist)

I would recommend Colloquy, it’s very pretty and works well.