July 2008
12 posts
“Is “Our Customers Are Stupid and Have No Idea What They Really Want” really...”
– “I’ve got to imagine that the Microsoft customers who took all the damn time to upgrade their machines to Vista, determined it was unworkable, and then had to take all the time to go BACK to XP, probably did so for a reason, possibly even a valid reason, and not because they had been...
Jul 30th
StupidFilter :: Main / About →
I can write a StupidFilter in one line of code: curl $1 | grep -iv "FIRST"
Jul 28th
Jul 26th
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Exploring Unix Failures
Voxar: OMFWTF!
Voxar: $ ls | grep python
Voxar: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Jul 26 14:28 python2.4@ -> python2.5
Voxar: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Apr 23 20:07 python2.5@ -> python2.4/
Jul 26th
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Jul 21st
Exploring Windows Failures
So Voxar just described to me a scenario he just experienced in Windows. He ctrl-C’d folder A, pasted it into destination, and while Windows was thrashing on that operation, he ctrl-C’d folder B. By now, Windows was done thrashing and initiated the transfer proper, only, it’s now copying folder B, not A! We can from this infer that during a clipboard file transfer in Windows XP,...
Jul 19th
Prince of Persia: Next Gen - E3 2008 →
That music really didn’t go well with that trailer… Sounded/looked like some AMV off of youtube :P And it’s certainly visible where they got their inspiration… ICO anyone? (I’m usually a big fan of Sigur rós, btw) Also, I dig the next-gen-ish cell shading-ish graphics.
Jul 19th
Jul 16th
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Properly bundling .frameworks in your application...
Update: My blog post on @rpath supersedes/complements this post (it’s not finished yet, though). I’m sure you’ve run into it. You build your app and it works fine, but when you distribute it, your users get: Library not loaded: /Users/Richard/Library/Frameworks/libmng.framework/Versions/A/libmng Referenced from: /Users/nevyn/Downloads/Sphere-Mac...
Jul 14th
“This past November my wife and I had our first kid. She was on a special monitor...”
– Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows | NetworkWorld.com Community — I knew Windows ran in a lot of stupid places, but *medical equipment*? Holy mother of god, how stupid can you be?!
Jul 9th