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Anyone noticed that some glyphs from good ol' Cairo are used in the Unicode standard? I'd thought they'd looked familiar, but never connected the dots. Of the "distinctive" glyphs (not just things like arrows where there's bound to be similarities), $ (pear, U+1F350), * (cactus, U+1F335), and ␡...

I swear I remember seeing a globe in the UI back in the day, but darned if I can remember where it was used. Maybe an icon, or part of a control panel screen. There's a tiny one as part of some Appleshare elements, but I'm thinking there was a large-ish, almost 32×32 one. Similarly, I'm...

I think Monaco is one of the best, if not the best, programmer's (and general-purpose monospace) font ever. Many agree with me. But some don't. If you are one of them, what is it you don't like? Are there specific features you don't like, or is it the overall appearance? Conversely, what are...

AD has been discussed before but I'm curious if anyone has thought of extracting the resources and then reverse-engineering the behaviors of the originals.

Anyone else seeing a problem with "7" (the moon character) being corrupted? In Firefox 21 (Win 7 Pro) it causes a band of black all the way across the browser. In Opera 12 and IE it doesn't bork the display, but the glyph doesn't appear either. When I view the font with BabelMap, the position...

Comment at http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/apple-color-emoji/ says that Apple had color fonts back in 1987, predating Color Emoji by over 20 years. Anyone confirm?

None of the CSS has been loading for quite some time. ☹ Anybody know what happened?

I loved my Star Trek AD collection. It was the first software I purchased (not including Word/Excel which came bundled with my first Mac in college). I keep thinking that it's too bad it's not possible to run those great screensavers on my Mac these days. But is it really so impossible? What...

I came across http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shells/ again recently, and it got me wondering what versions the shells available in A/UX are. I know /bin/sh is badly broken, and I always replace mine with a symlink to /bin/ksh instead.

Yup, definitely a font geek. :)

OK, I'm a font geek. Hence this poll.

A nice fellow found an old CL post of mine and asked if I still wanted old Macs. He's moving and had recycled most of his old computer gear, except for a Color Classic and upgrade mobo. He said I could have them (even dropped them off at my house) if I promised to send pics if I made a fish...

I was looking for the Color Classic FAQ and Stuart Bell's sites, but they appear to be offline. Have they moved, or disappeared? If the latter, anyone have a mirror up?

What classic Mac OS titles did you really like, and what are you using nowadays to replace them? Maelstrom : Maelstrom (ported from original) Marathon : Aleph One (ported from M2, scenarios are free downloads) Warlords : LordsAWar (looking forward to trying this)

Does anybody use a GUI on m68k unix? (I know the pool of m68k unix users is so large overall…) What's the lowest-specced unix machine you run a GUI on?

Lots of spammers on the wiki lately. Is there anything that can be done on the technical side to try to stop them?

Several sources mention "significant" differences between the original bitmap New York by Susan Kare and the Truetype version produced by B+H. I've never been able to find anything illustrating these, though. Anyone else? I've also seen suggestions for Times ((New) Roman) as a substitute for...

Find the thttpd 2.25b tarball on my site. It includes binaries and a README with the patch. No testing beyond starting it and hitting the home page. Gave lighttpd a try (configured with --without-pcre --without-zlib --without-bzip2) but quickly ran into POSIX bits that A/UX doesn't have. I...

Hmmm, why would gcc tell me that STDERR_FILENO is undeclared when unistd.h is included in the file?

What would be the coolest development you can imagine happening regarding A/UX? What's on your A/UX wishlist?