The Power of Focus

A month or two after one of my colleagues told me that in the States one typically specialises in a certain type or field of programming (as opposed to the jack-of-all-trades approach typical of South Africa and New Zealand) I still find it amazing!!! What an awesome opportunity to specialise like that!

Which File Extension Are You?

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Which File Extension are You?

Microsoft’s developer patent pledge “worse than useless” says SFLC

What else did you expect from those asses at microsoft? Charity and good will towards men?
http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/microsofts_deve.html

5 ways to save on your monthly software rental bill in the year 2056

Brlliant!!!

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1787

Scott Carpenter's blog
Please check out the Free Software Magazine

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REALLY small linux devices and a slut of an OS

Ooo... shiny!
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7561066345.html

Windows Visa, Slut Edition! (yes VISA! Because one needs a visa to pay for the OS and all the new hardware that it needs to run...)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060907/tc_afp/usitsoftwarecompanymicrosoftlatvialanguageoffbeat

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Why Johnny Can't Code

Got this brilliant article off slashdot:


http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/index.html

I remember Basic. Could never get the programs to work though, although I think the programs in the books from the public library and my version of basic weren't compatible for some strange reason... I don't think that any of you know how much I now wish that I could have gottenthose programs to work.

Just imagine: a 6 or 7 or 8 year old coder. How elite is that???

Happy 50th Birthday Harddrive!!!

The harddrive turned 50 yesterday. Check out the links:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/14/0148217
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060913/tc_pcworld/127104

The second link is quite interesting. For instance, dis you know that Al Shugart worked on the original HDD and also founded Seagate, the biggest HDD maker? Or that the first HDD, a RAMAC unit, weighed a ton. Literally. (Not sure if it was a metric or imperial ton though, guessing imperial. Flipping Americans... ;-)

Many happy returns Mr. Platter!

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top For Windows

Just found out a windows equivalent of top, the process/tasklist viewer. It's called tasklist.

Drop down to your command prompt/shell (Start -> Run -> "cmd") and type in "tasklist /v"

Thanks to http://www.sadeveloper.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74287 and http://blogs.msdn.com/winclient/archive/2004/07/08/177947.aspx

A more personal update coming soon...

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Portaputty

Yeah, I know, its been a while. Update soon, I promise. ;-) In the meantime, check out portaputty, "a hacked version of PuTTY that stores all its information in files, not in the registry."

http://socialistsushi.com/portaputty

See you guys soon!

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HAPPY x86 DAYS!!!

From /.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1232229
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"today, tomorrow and the next day are the only days we'll get dates like this: 2/8/6 3/8/6 4/8/6 like the x86 computers :-)" And yes folks, in the august news cycle vortex, even this strikes my fancy. In recent years we've seen numerical giants like 3/1/4, 6/6/6 and 1/2/3, but now really, what do any of us have to look forward to? Is our future dull and meaningless without cool numbers in dates? Oh the humanity of it all...
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