It was revealed that a certain number of Video iPods were inadvertently shipped with a Windows virus called RavMonE.exe. Apple has put up a support page to help users affected by this problem, which is good, but in it they say: As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy [...]
After a terribly disappointing round of announcements at WWDC, I’m giving serious reconsideration to my affiliation with Apple and the Mac OS X platform. I’ve grown weary of Apple’s constant push to upgrade – if you’re not running the latest version of Mac OS X you may as well be running DOS. I’m tired of their [...]
Found this interesting link in Gamasutra about how World of Warcraft is teaching and encouraging the wrong goals. I concur, so read on: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things While I don’t necessarily agree with or subscribe to his points in their entirety, nor do I place Street Fighter on the high pedestal that [...]
Lots of my friends and colleagues use various different databases for different things, as do I. One thing that I keep coming across is people using MySQL. I’ve never much liked MySQL; its transaction system is fairly new and is not enabled in the default table type, it’s really fast for read queries but slow [...]
Those of you who know me are probably aware of my long-standing boycott on Wal-Mart. I’ve never liked the retail juggernaut’s business practices, their stance towards unions, their purchasing methods, or their major role in homogenizing the American landscape. I just think they’re a bunch of assholes, basically, and I do not shop there. A [...]
There are several aspects of Mac OS X, both from a system level and an application level, that handily make it the best system for web browsing and development on the market today. First and foremost is the plethora of web browsers available for it: Apple’s Safari The Mozilla Project’s Firefox Omni Group’s OmniWeb The [...]
So in my apartment complex there are apparently a sizable number of Duke undergrads. This isn’t a problem, per se, except that they’re extraordinarily loud and completely inconsiderate of others living in the complex. Last night, shortly after 2:00 AM, I had to go out into the hallway to ask the 20 or so people [...]