A random collection of thoughts from an easily bored developer
I honestly had no idea they made these. I saw them on display at the Target toy sale, but didn’t get a chance to make a purchase. Ah, to be 10 again.. Looking at these, I’m reminded of the all night Zone 3 sessions I used to frequent in my youth. It leads me to [...]
In the early years of public internet usage, before the days of PPP and SLIP (anyone else remember using a SLIP client to get IP connectivity??), one of the only ways to get connected from home was to dial in to a *NIX shell account using a Terminal Emulator application. To many people, their first [...]
The technology industry is no stranger to brand wars, nor the fanboys that accompany them. For decades, battles have been waged in the school yard, workplace, arcade, any place where over-excited tech geeks gather, all over issues that seem inconsequential to the casaul observer. Whether it be Apple vs IBM, Amiga vs IBM, Microsoft vs [...]
My recent switch to using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) as my primary machine for work and play hasn’t all been fun and games. I’ve had quite a few issues, almost all of them relating to hardware. One of the issues that took the longest to investigate and had the least satisfying outcome was related to [...]