Sapere Aude
Month: December 2006
i picked a mac as my new workhorse, so i will be curious to see whether i drink the koolaid, or whether eric’s got it right
My main cause for regret is the overall usability of the OS. There are 3 main issues here. The lack of keyboard access to commands, the antiquated menu bar and the MDI.
lol. balint calls himself a geo power user. apparently!
from the (spanish) maker of some NK website. oy. (via the always interesting anselm)
You get up. They cue up a random presentation. You ad lib it.
this must be awesome
i don’t get why the php core devs prefer to be wankers. rather than address the security concerns and perceptions, they validate them.
2013-12-18: since we just talked about php the other day… if even large sites can’t keep their php shit up, what hope do the little guys have?
Looks like en.wikipedia.org has been hit with an ugly hack. The pages for many countries (France, Germany, Brazil, etc) have been defaced with the following weird message.
Also, don’t actually go to these WP pages to confirm unless you have a high tolerance for large images of male genitalia. You’ve been warned 🙂
It is their way of cornering a totally new market: a different ad model commonly known as cost-per-action.
one of the most striking things about the neocortex: that almost every part of it, whether devoted to vision, hearing, touch, speech, or motion appears to have more or less the same structure.
i wonder if they faked some details for security reasons?
I have built a system, which I’m calling Amber, to record the complete execution history of arbitrary Linux processes. The history is recorded using binary instrumentation based on Valgrind. The history is indexed to support efficient queries that debuggers need, and then compressed and written to disk in a format optimized for later query and retrieval.
roc’s magic new debugging framework in more detail
i was surprised to learn, on this zurich trip, how completely myspace dominates the music scene, even here.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 