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Augmenting user interfaces
I was reading Jeff’s post on Coding Horror about naughty filters (and I more or less agree – you can’t fix a social problem with technology). Towards the end he mentions Yahoo Mail, which brought to mind a nice feature they added recently to search: Now, when you do a keyword search, it presents a…
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Media you can get for free
Some time ago I’ve written about (commercial) software which you can get (legally!) for free. Now I’m writing about the media you can (legally!) consume on the “Intertubes”. There are of course the well known players like Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and so on (although some of those are not available outside the USA – a…
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Procrastination
Zee Frank – pro-cra. “You might learn a whole new programming language to put off something usefull with the ones you already know!” – Brilliant!
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It can happen to the best of us
I was reading Scott Hanselman’s The Weekly Source Code 33 – Microsoft Open Source inside Google Chrome and came upon this piece of text: Older versions of ATL, and by older I mean pre-Visual C++ 2005, used dynamically generated code in small isolated cases. Obviously, without the appropriate APIs this is going to cause problems…
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Free space on an NTFS volume
I found this article via Raymond Chen’s blog: NTFS Misreports Free Space?. It’s very interesting (if you like getting to the bottom of technical things). Incidentally it reminded me of an old question I always had: Why don’t processes which need to read all the files from a given volume (for example AV scanners) use…
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Fun Slashdot comment
On the topic of ReiserFS vs. Ext3 benchmarks: Just search for benchmarks, something like reiserfs beats ext2 by huge margins when it comes to important workloads such as a mail server. Hell, it probably beats it to death.
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Financial markets
Lately I’ve been reading about financial markets in general and equity markets specifically. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve certainly picked up some things. What surprised me is how “distant” some elements of these markets are from reality. For example: stock is easy to understand – you get part of the ownership of…
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A cuddly little penguin
Most probably a Fiordland Penguin:
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Clearly labelling your products
We’ve just bought a small digital camera and it came with two AA batteries. I was wandering if they were rechargeable. The text on them wasn’t really that clear, it said something like “may explode if recharged inserted improperly”, which left me wondering: do they mean “inserted improperly in the charger” or is a comma…
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Mixed links
Seen on Ars Technica: Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows?. This is an other reason for using software where the complete source is available to you. It is incredible that something which is rather straight forward from a technical point of view should create such legal problems. Via the GSD blog: Flash Player 10: Dazzling…