I’m going to attend OSCON in Portland next week. This is my first non-Microsoft oriented conference so I’m excited to see how this is different. SourceLabs will have several presentations and we will be running a booth so there will be a fair amount of work invovled. I’m particularly excited to attend [...]
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Switchers v.2005
This article in Macworld UK talks about an analysis by Needham & Co. that claims almost half a million people have switched from Windows to OS X. Many of the usual issues are raised — Windows as a virus plagued platform, Apple ease of use, iPod halo effect, etc. Overall, it is an [...]
FreeBSD gets a security checkup
A code analysis software company called Coverity recently published a generally favorable report on the number of security flaws in the FreeBSD code base. It found 306 flaws or about 1 for every 4K lines of code. Linux by comparison had 950 flaws for what I’m guessing is a larger code base.
What can [...]
Buy a cd - feel like a criminal
I’m a huge fan of the Dave Matthews Band. I have 19 of their albums - all of which I purchased. I have the same song in like 10 different forms but since they are such a great live band, I want all ten versions.
BMG - the DMB publisher - has decided to [...]
Learning Java
The time has finally come for me to learn Java. I’ve never really had to use it given my previous life (it was not really encouraged). But the company I work for now is getting heavily into Java support. That means I can add YAL (yet another language) to the list I [...]