What really happened…
January 2nd, 2010 by Merlijn

merlijn@nietzsche 4 ~$ nslookup 69.69.69.69
Server: 10.1.2.5
Address: 10.1.2.5#53
Non-authoritative answer:
69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa name = the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com.
Authoritative answers can be found from:
arpa nameserver = I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
arpa nameserver = L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
No other word for it. Stupid Americans.
How on earth do you think of assigning a patent to Microsoft for something which was invented around the time that Bill Gates crawled out of his mother?
Sadly, Scott Anguish decided to pull out the plug of Stepwise. This site was for me the place to be in the early OS X days. Scott was one of the first to provide details on setting up *nix tools on OS X. Since 2004 or smth, the site slowly died. But I still visited stepwise daily to check the collection of news bits from Scott his rss feed. Always good for developer-related news items main sites missed.
Scott has his own blog at http://www.abandoninplace.com/, but it misses the nice selection of developerfeeds.