Sep 20 2007
Show Stopper! by G. Pascal ZacharyWhile perusing the (absolutely wonderful: you should be reading it every day) blog of Jeff Atwood, I came across his review of Show…
Sep 11 2007
It’s been a work in development for quite some time now, and I’ve been using it as my main client ever since it entered beta stage, but developer Tim Kosse has finally published a stable 3.0.0 version of the famous…
Aug 03 2007
Well, one way to get me to switch to Linux is for Windows to refuse to install on my new machine.
Vista, even though can clearly see all of my hard drives, says “Windows is unable to find a system volume…
Jul 23 2007
It’s that time again: I’m planning out a new workstation for myself. Those of you who have seen this since the beginning my remember my first foray into PC-building (not to mention its disastrous consequences).
Here’s my just-ordered layout:
Jun 27 2007
Wired magazine is running a fascinating article about the plight of Hans Reiser.
Hans Reiser is waiting for me, standing on the other side of an imitation-wood table. The room is small, the concrete walls bare. A guard locks the steel door…
Apr 20 2007
Since there have been a slew of minor (and just a few major) software releases in the past week, I’ve decided to amalgamate them all into a single post. There are a fair number, so I’ve hidden them beneath the…
Apr 08 2007
The flame-wars between GPL and BSD proponents flared up again this weekend. Marcus Glocker, an OpenBSD developer, used GPLed driver code for the “bcw” driver (Broadcom wireless) he was developing, and which he had committed to OpenBSD’s public CVS server.
First,…
Mar 29 2007
OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, has reached v2.2.0. This is the second release under the new number scheme that does away with micro (x.y.z) releases except in the case of small security updates
Download it here, or check out the release…
Mar 26 2007
The proprietary choices for optical disc burning on Windows are pretty obvious: at the fore, there’s Roxio’s offering, EZ Media Creator, and Nero’s offering, Nero Burning Rom. Having used Roxio’s v5 program long, long ago…