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Would someone just buy one of these?
I wish they would stop airing this commercial on http://di.fm/. If you buy one, maybe a) the site will run better and b) they’ll stop f*cking bothering me.
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Someone asked recently….
Their question was “Why is VMS so much faster than Unix?” They of course used the new fangled words for “VMS” and “Unix,” but the idea was the same. The short answer is that it’s because they are different operating systems and that they focus on different consumers. The long answer is very long. It…
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Snowing in everett
beginning to look a lot like….
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What makes Christians Christian?
I was reading through Andrew Sullivan‘s blog and I’m intrigued by what folks seem to think makes a Christian a Christian. In my opinion, the only thing required to be a Christian is for an individual to consider themself so. It’s one of those “I think, therefore I am” kinds of things, as far as…
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My kind of conservative
I was reading through my plog and came across this interview with Andrew Sullivan. I liked it, but it seems that I’m in the minority. :) http://xrl.us/tgd6 Take a look and let me know what you think. Here’s an excerpt to whet your apetite: Amazon.com: What’s your idea of faith? Sullivan: I do not believe…
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EricLippert01.wmv (video/x-ms-wvx Object)
EricLippert01.wmv (video/x-ms-wvx Object) So… a while ago, I took arjen_lentz to Microsoft to meet with eric_lippert and talk about MySQL and Microsoft together-workingness. Eric talked about his work on LiNQ (if that’s how it’s spelled) and I took pictures. I didn’t really follow, but I bet the data folks in the audience will find this…
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AIGLX – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AIGLX – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bling.
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Edgy
Edgy’s working well for me now that I stopped attempting to get beryl & xgl working. It’s not production ready yet, folks :)
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Mono stuff
1) A.J. is writing unit tests against Microsoft.Xna. We’ll use these unit tests as a sort of specification for Mono.Xna. Same as the perl6 smoke tests. 2) Speaking of perl6, I saw Audrey Tang at work the other day. She’s traveling around working on the bits. She’s planning to visit Boston and Ximian on May…
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Etch is nearly done
Unlike another major operating system planned to release in the next couple of months, Debian is no longer in the development phase and is floating gently through QA. From debian.org: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 July 24th, 2006 The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution…