In March of this year I switched to OSX, running on a shiny new 17” MacBook Pro. I wrote about it here. I prepared myself for the change, and I was committed to giving it a fair shot for my computing time. The initial feeling of running OSX was one just like driving a brand [...]
Read More »I am switching to a MAC The computer has not arrived yet, but I am prepping for it. I have spent so many years now working with Unix systems, it seems like second nature to me. The biggest change prior, for me came about 5 years ago when I jumped from tcsh to bash. [...]
Read More »As promised by my previous post, here is the basic exchange guide for proprietary software credits. Each OS manufacturer is assigned a base value, to that we add the proprietary footprint of the OS they provide.Notes on some OS's are provided. If the OS was particularly difficult on the user, then the overall cost is [...]
Read More »Now that I have received some feedback, I need to clarify a few points about the credit program. First, I am not making a judgment about the usability of the proprietary software. It may be better for you, it may run faster, jump farther, be the package you know, etc. The judgment is that [...]
Read More »I was driving to work the other day, listening to talk radio. They were discussing the Democratic National Convention and how it was “going green”. This intrigued me, and I went to take a look. At the site, there was a Carbon Calculator, where a traveler to the convention could get an estimate of the [...]
Read More »Having read my colleagues post on the Trent Reznors open source music project, and being a fan of Nine Inch Nails earlier work, I zipped right out and fired up ktorrent to download the albums. I say albums as Ghost I – IV is not a single disc, but rather more like 4 discs with [...]
Read More »I rarely ( read never ) blog about other blogs.. that seems so … plagiaristic … to me. But, I caught this from the O'Reilly feed, and jumped to the link. It is a youtube video on Startup Metrics. I have no original thoughts about it, other than to say it is good listening / [...]
Read More »I am amazed by spam. Initially, I was irritated by it. But, the more I get, the more amazed I am. If people, somewhere did not respond to it, then it would not work… so, the amazing thing is that someone out there really believes that stuff… I get a variety of spam.. By [...]
Read More »Perl is a must have tool on every system. I use it almost every day to manipulate data from command lines and to write small utility scripts. I made the jump to Ruby a number of years ago and concede to the readability and cleanliness of it's object oriented language over Perl. Anything that [...]
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