Haiku
matt | February 27, 2009
Haiku OS
Based on BeOS
Now seems very retro.
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
Windows 7 Beta
matt | February 27, 2009
Now, I will grant you that I was running it in a VM, but:
SLOOOOOOWWWWWWW
The base install is 9gb, but aside from a DVD burning app and some games, I can’t figure out what is using up all the space.
Bill Gates Rant
matt | February 24, 2009
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Heh.
apt-get install kino
Done.
Codey things
matt | February 23, 2009
Building desktop apps with JavaScript and GTK bindings.
Neat idea, but JS? Eww. Stab me in the eye, why don't you.
Vala – C#-ish syntax which compiles down to native code for the GTK+ widget set. (Article).
You lose the cross-platform-ness of .NET, but get the performance and
maturity of the GTK+ widget set.
It's kind of hawt.
Of course, if [...]
NEIN! Bad programmer!
matt | February 23, 2009
It's folks with “good ideas” like this which is why there is so much bad code out there.
(1) Keep youre[sic] code on the same level of indentation as much as possible.
Indenting is cheap, easy and helps you discern what code is in what blocks. Additionally, any decent modern editor will automatically indent for you, invalidating [...]
You've got to be f-ing kidding me.
matt | February 22, 2009
Bill to prohibit cursing in public. Slightly absurd.
Dollhouse
matt | February 22, 2009
So, a show about meat puppets is interesting and all, but if this gets more episodes than Firefly, I'm going to be pissed. It's a good show and worth watching, but I like the first couple episodes of Firefly better so far.
I do like the “will be back in 60 seconds”, “will be back in [...]
Customer service – ur doin it right
matt | February 22, 2009
I know that folks (including myself) like to complain about poor customer service and bad products. However, I'd like to turn that around, and talk about some good companies and good products.
First, I'm a bit of a battery and flashlight whore, and I've ordered a lot from BatteryJunction, and not had a problem until recently [...]
Singularity
matt | February 22, 2009
I recently finished the podiobook of Singularity.
The story, overall, is very good. I like the science and political intrigue aspects of it, and while someone with more physics than I would likely find fault with the science, it worked for me. This is likely the result of him actually talking with physicists about the subject [...]
Scary, scary security stuff
matt | February 21, 2009
Stuff from BlackHat
SSL Man in the Middle attack which comes really close to being an undetectable sniffing of your SSL traffic.
This is, of course, the problem with the “web of trust”, which was always the problem I had with using it for email.
Let's back up a step.
If you want to go buy something from a [...]
