Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
First I saw it on Slashdot but didn’t pay much attention b/c… Well, all that “…crashes Konqueror, but works nicely on Mozilla…” stuff set off the red flag sirens in my mind to *AVOID*AVOID*AVOID* Then I saw it on Engadget as well and decided to check it out. Upon seeing it in action, I decided […]
Best random “I-Never-Would-Have-Thought-Of-That-But-Damn-That-Works!” moment yet: Nine Inch Nails “Ruiner” > Golden Boy (feat. Miss Kittin) “Rippin Kittin”
Impasse. Not sure if other programming folk hit this point where you glance down at your project and realize that you’re not fully certain that you understand what you’re doing. I think I’ve reached that point with my sideproject. The `backticks` are all still part of the plan for actually pumping the data into MySQL […]
(at long last, Detonator-3’s red LED fan light comes on…) currently playing: not The Portal Service’s “District Sleeps Alone Tonight” (DJ Downfall remix)
Via Boing Boing: Article in the International Herald Tribune warns of the 100-110 volt only iMac G5. While I have yet to find any conspiracy theorists out there commenting on this as some kind of DMCA-esque regional lock-down, I’m prone to go w/ a more parsimonious explanation: To fit the whole computer into 2-inch think […]
KetelOne, thou art a harsh mistress… In my opinion, the iBook has but one major design flaw in the hardware. The damn battery pack falls out so damn easy. This was never a big deal before when it fell out en route and the in-sleep-mode OS X just heaves a great sigh and springs back […]
James Duncan Davidson has a neat little post about how iTunes actually kind of sucks in the LAN environment. His three major points: When playing from a remote iTunes, play counts and last played information isn’t kept. This breaks the “Recently Played” and “Top 25 Most Played” smart playlists. It’d be nice to manage playlists […]
A little PHP buggery from the “just-for-fun” department, found_drama is … if not proud, at least delighted to present: iSpy (alpha version 0.2) — a random generator for “Eye Spy” style personals ads. (You all know the type…) Example: You: all leathered up with nowhere to go at the gym, like about a month and […]
As this project expands and meets head-on with this neat little nuance of Apple’s “plist” ish, I find myself at a fun little x-roads. To start with, there’s a whole lot of MySQL and PHP being re-learned at the moment. The funny part is, being an iTunes user, so much of my music collection is […]
Tao of Mac has a great entry about consistency and follow-through in the Linux community. An interesting read and timely in the light of my recent read of In The Beginning Was The Command Line…