So, as has already been reported elsewhere on the Internets, Comcast (of which I am a current customer) is going to assess a 250 GB limitation on transfer for its residential customers. This is more than a little disturbing, being that I signed up for unlimited use Internet. Disclaimer: The math in this post is [...]
Roy Schestowitz often posts two kinds of links: highly underrated, and highly overrated. However, he posted an article a few hours ago that has me wondering if he actually reads some of the things that he posts. The article, Another Reason to avoid Mono: Security, is entirely misleading. The problem is actually within Windows Vista. [...]
So, Reiser has pointed the police to the body of Nina Reiser (link via Slashdot). The body has been exhumed, and they’re going to be confirming the identity of the body soon, I should expect. The action came as a result between Reiser and the DA reaching an agreement that essentially said “the body for [...]
It seems that Nelson over at the OSI’s Web site is confused about how “fundamentalist” can be applied to an Open Source advocate. It can be done; one just has to remember that a “fundie” (the variant of the word which makes the malicious connotation clear) is someone that exists at a special place called [...]
I don’t really like fundies that much, no matter where they come from. The thing with fundies is that they often put out FUD, which serves only to confuse people. First, the article doesn’t mention Midnight Commander or GNOME. Both were written and influenced by Miguel de Icaza, and both are excellent—beautiful, even—pieces of software. [...]
I just read a (rather short) article on integer vs. UUID values as primary surrogate keys for a database system. Now, while it would probably be better to not use surrogate keys, there are many situations where they can be useful or even necessary. Often, they’re useful to the application for internal purposes, and sometimes [...]
Jon wrote “For Me, It’s Linux, Not GNU/Linux” today. I notice that every so often, this issue crops up again in some circles. Many people feel that saying “GNU/Linux” is confusing and shouldn’t be said at all… and, I would even agree with them—but not in the usual “let’s just call it Linux” way. See, [...]
Yet another proclamation from Redmond, telling Windows users to “restart regularly” and such. What? Microsoft: Does it not get tiring that you still haven’t fixed up Windows well enough that it still needs to be rebooted? Seriously. I have not rebooted my computers in a long time. And my systems are performing quite nicely, too. [...]
Several times in the past year, I have found that there is confusion over the units of measurement used in computing. There is one important thing to remember: SI prefixes predate computers by a long time. Using SI-prefixes to indicate power-of-two measurements is a depreciated usage of those terms, and continues to perpetuate confusion. As [...]
Livejournal, you have gone the way of the United States. And that is not a compliment. Brad Fitzpatrick, you’re a damned sellout. You’ve done some amazing things in the past, like work to get OpenID going. But you lost points with me when you sold out to 6A, and you’ve lost any remaining points by [...]
