I’m a blog dope. I don’t have a great understanding of what trackback is all about. However, my buddy Steve wrote a sentiment regarding the recent Tannenbaum talk here that we often look at eachother and repeat, so I thought I’d track back to it here. We’ll see what happens. 2 mins later: UPDATE –…
Category: Technology
Tannenbaum Speaks at Princeton
Andrew Tannenbaum is a highly acclaimed lecturer, researcher, and author on various topics in computer science, most notably operating systems. His volumes on the design of modern operating systems are used in many if not most university systems courses. This is not to say he isn’t controversial, however. His public debates with Linus Torvalds on…
We gotta get outta this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do…
I spent my boyhood in New Jersey, kindergarten through 10th grade. Then I moved to Texas to finish up high school. Since I graduated HS, I’ve lived in Philadelphia, NYC, went back to Texas, Baton Rouge, and I’m now back in NJ. As a former stockbroker, my clientele spanned the entire country; Minnesota, Hawaii, Florida,…
Tired… So Tired…
I’m tired of Linux reviews. I’m tired of Linux zealots who say disingenuous things like “if the choice is between Open or Closed Source solutions, the answer is easy” in the context of a discussion about things they have no clue about. I’m tired of hearing about what Linux has to do to “hit the…
Blog spam
Should I just turn comments off on my blog? What are you doing about blog spam? Do you know what blog spam is? If you don’t, and you have a blog, you should! Here’s an example: I posted an entry a couple of hours ago. I just looked at my blog page, and lo and…
They say Vista will be better
I just read a PC World article that says, well… this: My PC’s firewall, antivirus scanner, spyware remover, pop-up blocker, and spam filter all agree: Windows is sorely lacking in PC security. That situation may not change until Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn) comes out sometime next year. This implies that things will, in fact, get…
Free Guitar Tab Sucks
It’s true. Anyone who has played guitar for some extended period of time, who cut their teeth on the tablature found in “Guitar for the Practicing Musician”, or the later “Guitar One” will note the amazingly huge gap between the quality of those (usually flawless) transcriptions and the ones you find online for free. My…
vimOS: the perfect operating system
Imagine an operating system that does away with the whole notion of a desktop. Why do we need this whole metaphoric thing applied to our computers, anyway? Sure, I can see why it existed before: we needed a metaphor so that we could teach the world, by analogy, how to think about computing. But now,…
If you use mapquest, read this
I can see it playing out like a movie. The head muckety-muck over at Google emails the big cheese over at mapquest. The mail says, simply “Good morning. I believe I’ve just put you out of business. No hard feelings.” The big cheese at mapquest runs home, only to be found by his wife later…
Opera 8: the "almost soup" release
For my non-tech friends: Opera is a web browser, and it runs under Windows, Mac and Linux, and some other stuff, I think. It’s a pretty good browser — certainly better than internet exploder. Some time ago they added a mail client that really rocks, but I tend to really want more out of it…