So I recently finished Lawrence Lessig’s Code 2.0 and I am compelled to pass some sort of comment on it. Book reviews aren’t really my strength, but this one definitely deserves attention of some sort.
First the easy stuff. This book is a new edition of an earlier book with the obvious title. The changes and [...]
Why do some Windows users hate iTunes so much?
I can’t understand it myself. I think a lot of the angst directed towards iTunes is misguided. Or misinformed. Or overstated. Or just a matter of taste. Hear me out.
Behold my Claytons iPhone. It’s the iPhone I have when I don’t have an iPhone. And in many ways it’s better than the real thing (besides being non-vapourware here in Australia).
This phone is a Nokia 6110 Navigator. It replaces the Nokia N70 I bought, and wrote extensively about, a while back. Unlike last time when [...]
One of the main joys of home ownership is the ability to run Ethernet cable throughout the house without asking anyone’s permission. For ages I have wanted to do this, and now I have. Behold.
In lieu of a server room, I have a server shelf. It’s in the laundry/garage area under the house. The gang [...]
If you’re at all interested in computing technology you can’t help but be amazed at the advances in CPU power over the last few decades, Moore’s Law, blah blah blah. But a few seconds pondering this invariably provokes the question as to how long this party can last.
The commonly accepted wisdom is that CPUs have [...]
So I’m brushing up on my shell-fu. In other words, working my way through the excellent and highly recommended From Bash to Z Shell, skimming the bits I know and experimenting with the bits I didn’t know. Here’s something I didn’t know; you may not either.
Ordinarily, a shell hint like this wouldn’t make the bloggable [...]
Amazon recently opened their MP3 store (in “beta” of course). It is awesome.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t see it coming. Previous Amazon efforts with downloaded content were pretty lame, and I had no idea that they were going to come back with an offering that was as good as this.
Although I [...]
Have you been following Tim Bray’s Wide Finder project? It’s an exercise to express a fairly simple task in a manner that will scale across multiple CPU cores. Some of Tim’s initial progress with Erlang, and other contributors in different languages, is quite fascinating.
Like Tim I was also amused at Pete Kirkham’s C++ implementation [...]
Got a common document repository? Have it organised into a hierarchy? Here is my official list of words that you should never use for nodes in that hierarchy.
Data, General, Misc, $COMPANYNAME, Stuff, Docs, Team, $X-Drive
If you find yourself using any of these vague and overly-generic terms, you really should re-think your taxonomy.
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So in my discussion about headcycles I alluded to the possibility of detecting audio compression flaws with my fancy new equipment. By this I mean artifacts that are introduced as a result of the lossy process that squeezes audio into MP3s, AACs and so forth. I decided to conduct a double-blind test on myself to [...]
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