As mentioned previously, I use a 13″ mid-2009 MacBook Pro as my development machine, with virtual Linux and Windows machines running under Parallels. All was mostly well, except that I’m doing a lot more compiling in the last few months than I had been previously, and the IOWait problem on the Linux VM — always [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
“US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux”
So you’ve got an unmanned flying drone with deadly weapons, controlled by ground stations that could be hundreds or thousands of miles away. Of course you run it with the most popular and least secure operating system on the planet! I mean, what could possibly go wrong? I’ve said it before, in all-caps and bold [...]
“New York City gets a Software Engineering High School”
This sounds like an awesome idea. It’s a “limited, unscreened” school. [...] It means that any student who is interested can apply–their grades and attendence record are not taken into account in deciding whether or not to admit them, only their interest. I think this is the best thing about the school. A lot of [...]
“7 Habits of Highly Effective Marketting” [sic]
In honor of the year’s first Friday the thirteenth: it’s not bad luck when you bring it on yourself.
“Fast food firm fields Sith sandwich”
I’m a hard-core geek, but even I am just shaking my head in bafflement.
“Locating Change: Science and Technology Controversies”
From this article: [...] This is why one of the great contributions of science fiction is its ability to create monsters and technologies from the ether. When they show up out of nowhere, they challenge us to think more broadly and to make new connections. [...] That’s one of the things — maybe the main thing [...]
“Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts”
Twenty years ago, headlines like this one wouldn’t have even been imaginable.
“Official: File-sharing is a religion… in Sweden”
This sounds like something directly out of science fiction, to me.
“Darth Vader dies peacefully in hospital”
The character of Darth Vader, in the original Star Wars trilogy, has long been known to be a fusion of two people: bodybuilder David Prowse for (of course) the body, and the now-iconic James Earl Jones for the voice. But apparently there was a secret third component to this armored villain: sword-master and Hollywood fencing [...]
“H&M Under Fire for Using Fake, Computer-Generated Models”
That’s not data models, it’s women who model clothing. There was a near-future SF novel I read many years ago (I don’t recall which one) that posited that actors would be replaced almost entirely by computer-generated models. We’re already seeing the precursors of it — all the Pixar releases, for instance. And characters in games [...]