Monthly Archives: August 2008
Emacs vs. VI
A ‘long, long, long while back’, the first real editor I used was Vi. After that, I used a great editor on VMS called Eve. Then, just ‘a long while back’, I made the switch from bare-bones VI to Emacs. … Continue reading
Interesting Paper on Make
I wish this paper was available in 1994. I wasted so much time on these old issues in the past. I also wasted a lot of time on things like autoconf. The unix toolchain is not recommended. Recursive Make Considered … Continue reading
Good GIT Guide That I Shouldn’t Lose
ToolmanTims concise guide to quick repo setup
Font Pollution
America Is F*cked…….(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo. I saw the movie Helvetica about a year ago… good movie (good soundtrack too). This little video would fit right in there.
If you use flash, vote for this bug on adobe’s site
If you use flash, you will run into this bug. Please vote for this bug: Bug FP-289
Firefox 3 – The verdict – A Great Release
Just before Firefox 3 came out, I was a pretty heavy Firefox 2 user. It wasn’t hard to notice that FF 2 was having some issues with memory and event handling on the Mac. Well, I’ve been using Firefox 3 … Continue reading