Stroustrup on C++
I love this quote:
Software developers have neutralized the astounding performance of modern computer hardware by adding layer upon layer of overelaborate [software] abstractions.
- Bjarn Stroustrup
(Via Raganwald)
Fun with MyHeritage.com
Apparently My Heritage’s face recognition software has “taken the internet by storm” so I thought I’d give it a go and see which dashing celebrity I most look like. The photos below are of myself and my good friend Ky at a wedding this summer.
Evvidently all it takes to look like Dan Rather is a […]
Snowbound
Being from the east I’m absolutely loving the snowfall that’s hit Vancouver over the past two days - about 20cm or so of wet, heavy, snow that reminds me very much of the beginnings of winter in Toronto. It’s great!
However it does seem to have stymied this city a bit, particularly the drivers. This […]
Party Shuffle Like It’s 1984
Adina told me I had to post a Friday Party Shuffle Top 10 today and so I shall because a) it’s Friday and b) I pretty much do whatever she says. So without further ado, here it is:
1. Desire - The Sound
2. Lucretia My Reflection - The Sisters of Mercy
3. Seemann - Rammstein
4. Gut Feeling […]
Fly in Britain, Get 0wn3d
From The Guardian: Cracked it!
Six months ago, with the help of a rather scary computer expert, I deconstructed the life of an airline passenger simply by using information garnered from a boarding-pass stub he had thrown into a dustbin on the Heathrow Express. By using his British Airways frequent-flyer number and buying a ticket in […]
NYT on the Zune
In “Microsoft Counting on a Twist to Make Zune Shine in Shadow of iPod” the New York Times weighs in on the Microsoft Zune with an article almost entirely devoted to it’s ability to share music with other Zune owners:
But the Zune can do something that no other player, including the iPod from Apple, can […]
The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft
In his latest Wall Street Journal article ‘Microsoft’s Zune Challenges iPod’ Walt Mossberg compares the iPod to Microsoft’s soon-to-be-offered audio player, the Zune. About 1/3 of the way down Mossberg hits square on the head the difference between Apple and Microsoft and, I think, the reason Apple has such fanatical customer loyalty and respect while […]
MPlayer and Stutter-free TV
After much mucking about and too little reading of the MPlayer man pages, this combination got me stutter-free TV playback:
~$ mplayer /dev/video0 -nocache -framedrop
Is there a better way?
NASA Deftly Side-steps The Pesky D365 Problem
Cheeky NASA bastards, cleverly hacking their way around the “new year” computer glitch the rest of us have to suffer through each year:
The space shuttle’s computer software is about 30 years old and does not recognise when the calendar year switches. On 1 January 2007, for example, it will think it is day 366 of […]
RAID1 On Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper)
Early last week my Ubuntu machine up-and-died when GRUB could no longer find any OS on any of the drives. While mucking about fixing GRUB issues might be someone’s idea of a good time, I decided instead to blast the install to figurative smithereens (esp. the Windows disk that never got used) and re-install Ubuntu […]
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