A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. [...]
Also posted in Other | Tagged humor, programming, tech |
AT&T has started blocking access to img.4chan.org, which means access to the 4chan imageboards /b/ and /r9k/ are unavailable to most (not all) AT&T customers. An article on the wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica has details:
-Most AT&T DSL (largest ISP in the US, 15.5% of US Internet users) customers ARE currently not able to access img.4chan.org (/b/ [...]
So, it’s just text content, but it can call home, track where it has been, and secure digital rights. Good luck with that.
Also posted in Current events, Other | Tagged humor, image, tech |
“Indie” games, or independent video games (games developed without support from a major video game publisher) have become quite popular recently in some circles of gamers, and I couldn’t be happier.
The majority of these games are so-called “casual” games, or video games aimed at a wider and generally older audience. They tend to be puzzle-oriented, [...]
Also posted in Noteworthy | Tagged art, games |
As I’m sure you’re aware, Firefox 3.5 was officially released.
I had been using the beta version previously, but had a bit of trouble updating to the final release. The main obstacle I ran into was that I use a 64-bit build of the browser, along with 64-bit plugins for flash and java. I wanted a [...]
This is Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant men of the last century and the father of computer science. He was greatly influential in the fields of logic and mathematics, and he worked on codebreaking for the British government during World War II, devising several techniques for breaking German codes.
He was born on June [...]
Pretty much every designer says this, and with good reason. IE6 is around 8 years old now, and severely out of date. Designing around its bugs is a royal pain in the ass, and it’s necessary to do so because IE6 still has such a large userbase; 33%, by this source, as of March of [...]
Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, I still use it.
Everyone’s heard of Twitter. Senators use it, newscasters blabber about it, but what is it? This is as simple as I can state it: Twitter is a service where you (the user) post 140 character messages, which are meant to update people following you (subscribed to your updates, [...]
Also posted in Noteworthy, Opinion | Tagged tech, web |
Using RopeVim you can achieve this very easily.
Install python-vim and mercurial with your package manager. In ubuntu, you would type this:
sudo apt-get install python-vim mercurial
Download Alexander Artemenko’s easy installer script. Save it from the web, or copy+paste the contents into a new file.
Navigate to the directory you saved the script to (in the command line… [...]
Here are a few neat keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7.
Win+Left Arrow or Right Arrow docks the window to the left or right
Win+Up Arrow maximizes, and Win+Down Arrow minimizes (holding shift as well will make it maximize vertically but not horizontally)
Win+Home minimizes all non-focused (background) windows.
Win+Shift+Left or Right will move a window one display over to [...]
Seriously.
First, I’ll explain my bias: I’m primarily a Linux user, and I’d love to write a blog post trashing Windows. My experience with it so far, however, tells me that Windows 7 (only the beta, no less) is a big improvement and overall an excellent operating system. Now, I still prefer Linux, and I have [...]
Also posted in Opinion | Tagged tech, windows, windows 7 |
If you haven’t heard, Yahoo launched a tool that allows non-programmers to build mashups (web applications that combine data and/or functionality from more than one source) by dragging boxes and lines together in a (usually) intuitive visual interface. I played around with it for a while and made an application for listing one’s XFire statistics, [...]