I spent more than a decade trying different keyboards, looking for one that was just right. I had a picture of it in my mind: it had quiet, short-travel keys, like the keyboards on a laptop. It didn’t have an attached numeric keypad — between a right-handed mouse and a numeric keypad, a standard keyboard …
Interesting facts and statistics. And if you squint at it just right, you can almost see the future that science fiction has foretold for the last sixty years or so, right around the corner. (Via Lifehacker) EDIT, 2013-05-01: The first sentence above used to link to <http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/wild-world-robots/>, but I was asked today by someone from …
Just for balance, after yesterday’s thorough Microsoft-bashing post, here’s an Apple-bashing one that I thoroughly agree with too. I still plan to get a fourth-generation iPod Touch when they come out later this year, to replace my aging first-generation one, because it’s still the best non-cell-phone organizer available at present — but I’ll get it …
Smart move on Canonical’s part, getting themselves on more machines to get more manufacturers to sign maintenance agreements with them. Who says you can’t make money by giving stuff away? 😉 (But you can definitely make more money with commercial software, which is why more than half of my development work is commercial.)
I have little interest in skateboards, and never learned to ride one, but that headline certainly grabbed my attention when I saw it. And apparently it’s true too.
I’ve had to do a lot of work on my Windows 7 virtual machine recently, with my Linux virtual machine running at the same time. It was… painful. Even starting up the Win7 VM while the Linux VM was running meant twenty minutes or more of an essentially unusable machine. Starting up the Win7 VM, …
It seems that we’ve finally achieved one of the icons of the 1950s vision of the future: the living room videophone. And it might even catch on. But come on, guys… you promised that sixty years ago. That’s a heck of a long time to deliver on a promise. And where’s that flying car you …
I’m a horrible packrat. I’m not holding onto things for their earlier value, like this article suggests, but because they might be useful someday — in my youth, I had one too many instances of throwing something away after a couple years of disuse, only to discover that I needed it the next week. Nevertheless, …
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This article is good. Read it. Do it. Now. Your life (or at least your data) depends on it. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve seen people lose vital data to a dead hard drive, and it’s just as painful for me to have to tell them that it’s gone for good …
GoddessJ and I recently visited an Ikea store to get some furniture for our new house. As always, my attention was drawn to the fake computers and TVs they have in their display rooms. You’ll be as sad as I to learn that one of the manufacturers of such props (I think it’s the one …