December 2005

So, the question was posed, “what would it cost to get a PC workstation equivalent to the Quad-Core PowerMac G5?”. The null hypothesis was “The… Read More »Apples and Oranges

VMWare and Mozilla have teamed to produce “The Browser Appliance” – Firefox 1.5 running on Ubuntu Linux. A virtual machine download which runs on VMWare’s… Read More »The Browser Appliance

That’s right Hewlett-Packard Quilting, as in the bed linen. Lots of great project ideas there, just in time for “I still can’t figure out what… Read More »HP Quilting

I was pleased to find that the perl Encode module makes it fairly straightforward to convert between 8-bit character sets. The documentation isn’t as clear… Read More »Convert from MacRoman to ISO 8859-1 with Perl

The Register has an article talking about the new Intel Core (nee Yonah) processor line, expected to debut in Apple computers next month. The processor… Read More »2GHz Dual-Core Powerbooks?

Larry Wall is a linguist and he wrote Perl. Linguist Larry Wall wrote Perl. Larry Wall, a linguist, wrote Perl. A linguist wrote Perl; his… Read More »Linguist Larry Wall

The trend towards very tiny text on webpages seems to be accelerating. Check out this page – the link to actually download the software that’s… Read More »You’re Making Me Blind

That is, it’s head is where the Sun don’t shine. <p>I get half a dozen or more PayPal scam attempts a day. They’re almost always… Read More »PayPal Head In Shadow

Panasonic is reporting an 80% yield on their first run of 25 and 50GB Blu-Ray discs, which is a great yield for a first run.… Read More »Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD

This little tale from RISKS describes the process by which a bug was discovered, traced, and (yes, finally) fixed. <p>It’s especially interesting because at several… Read More »Open Source Bug Lifecycle