Unix’s founding fathers
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004The Economist had an interesting, if brief, article on Dennis Ritchie, Unix, C and other goings on at The Labs.
Archive for July, 2004
Gentoo
Monday, July 12th, 2004I’ve just installed Gentoo Linux for the first time and I definitely like its style. Very slick, and emerge is very nice. It was quite good fun trying to get support working for NForce networking, but not particular harder (and certainly a lot clearer) than getting it work in Mandrake 9.x.
It’s all gone pear-shaped!
Friday, July 9th, 2004Now, this I like: PearPC is officially the awesome-est thing I’ve seen for a fair bit. And me about to buy a bloody iMac just to test sites on… Anyways, it certainly does the trick for Safariing around and all that stuff that you do with a Mac.
On yer feet, son…
Thursday, July 8th, 2004So, while I’m happy about Larsson and Guily, I’m definitely not convinced about Deco. Good player and all that, but why can he not stay vertical for more than a couple of minutes?
Wrong end of the stick…
Monday, July 5th, 2004How to misquote: a lesson in bad journalism from Mobilemag.com. Nicola Bruno’s account of the Kodak DCS SLR/c review in Digital Photograph Review [sic] is a masterclass in not knowing your subject and freely chucking in partial snippets of quotes from somewhere else to produce a piece. And I quote: “The first 14 megapixel digital [...]