I don’t personally know many people who are bigger fans or proponents of KDE than I am. I think it’s fantastic. I love just about everything about it. Except KDE 4. It’s just not that exciting to me. The new features aren’t that important to me and as a whole the desktop performs rather pitifully [...]
We’ve all read the comments and seen the posts. “Open Source software isn’t secure.” While that may be true, I’d like to revise that statement by removing two words: “Software isn’t secure.” The licensing model of a piece of software will have almost no effect on the quality of that software in the early stages. [...]
I have a serious question for the 10% of you who visit this site and are still running IE 6. I’m not trying to mock anyone, nor pass judgment. I’m simply curious. Why are you still using IE 6? I get that about half of you seem to be running Windows 2000, so IE 7 [...]
Sometimes when you’re writing software you find yourself struggling with details, wrapped up in the infinitely small things, completely lost. You spend minutes, hours, perhaps days wandering in circles, trying to find the secret passage to completion that you just know is there. This is a reminder for myself and other seasoned programmers, and maybe [...]
A coworker once told me “That which gets measured gets done”. It seems painfully obvious, right? However I know a number of people who are trying to save gas, but don’t measure the results of their actions. This is for all of you. The way to measure the fuel efficiency of your car is by [...]
So fuel prices have finally convinced you to ditch that 20mpg pig that you’ve been driving. Many of us are (or were) in that same boat. I recently traded my 2001 Chrysler 300M (which averaged about 22mpg for me) for a 2008 Honda Civic. I’ve only put about 1,500 miles on the Civic, but so [...]
Your car requires gas to power the engine. The more power the engine requires the more gas you have to give it. Pretty simple so far, right? You’ve probably heard someone say “today’s cars are designed to go 70mph”, and that would be correct. However that doesn’t mean cars are designed to get their best [...]
…and what to blog about? It’s been a while since I updated this site. We’ve been incredibly busy at work which certainly beats not being busy. The downside is that your hobbies tend to take a beating. In an effort to keep this site updated and fresh(er) I’m also going to begin mixing in some [...]
This post is a follow up to this earlier post about redbox and their claimed inability to control their own data: Accepting Input From Anonymous Users and How Companies Like redbox Get It Wrong. Redbox and I exchanged a couple of emails. In my final reply to them I indicated that if their technical team [...]
Programmers sometimes don’t properly handle information from anonymous users, and redbox is a prime example of how to not handle it. This describes their methods and my proposed corrections to their system and yours.