Don’t tolerate shit
It’s OS day here on ob.blog. John “Daring Fireball” Gruber has written a great piece on the real-world security of Macs vs. PCs. Note the “real world” bit, because it’s important. “Real world” security is how safe and secure your computer actually is, regardless of the circumstances. Theoretical security focuses on probabilities and likelihoods and [...]
Linus not Linux, part IV
Yesterday Ken Brown responded to all the criticisms levied towards Samizdat in Samizdat’s critics…
There’s a few choice pieces in this article, namely:
Linux is a leprosy; and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector. Software is also embedded in hardware, [...]
Linus not Linux, part III
I’m starting to feel sorry for Ken Brown over at AdTI (well ok, no not really) because the poundings just keep on coming. At some point this guy won’t be able to get within six feet of a computer before it starts spewing nasty invectives in his direction.
If you don’t know who Ken Brown or [...]
Yeah, what he said
George W. Bush:
“I’d like to know who leaked,” Bush said in October. “And if anybody’s got information inside our government or outside our government who leaked, you ought to take it to the Justice Department, so we can find the leaker.”
Yeah, what he said. (This is the man in possession of the largest nuclear arsenal [...]
RSS into Excel?
Ross over at Tucows off-handedly remarks:
I can see a lot of synergy between RSS and Microsoft’s various client applications (RSS into Excel? Yummy), but that’s just the consumption side of things.
My first reaction to this was: “into Excel??? Noooo!” I imagined the potential security exploits alone as RSS feed-reading/speadsheet-using users dump loads upon loads of enclosure-supporting RSS [...]
Link weirdness
Wandering through my referrer logs this morning because, since I turned off MT Comments due to the gross levels of spam I was receiving, I have no idea if anyone’s actually reading this thing (turns out someone is: thanks mom!) I discovered that Escort Woman, an escort agency in Budapest, is responsible for a noticably [...]
Perl Operator Periodic Table
Most of the stuff on the web causes me one of two reactions: “huh. Dumbass.” or “huh. Cool.” But sometimes something comes along that makes me go “holy shit, that’s awesome!”
Mark Lentczner’s Perl Table of the Operators is just one of those. Where has this been all my life, and when is someone going to [...]