Just as I was starting to work in Xbox at the end of 2004, a blog post by someone calling herself “EA Spouse” sent off a firestorm around EA’s practice of unrelenting death marches. Looks like this led to several lawsuits that have now been settled.
I didn’t stay long enough at Xbox to go [...]
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How Many Hours Would You Work?
iTunes Sellout
This article about ads in podcasts from Adage is disappointing to say the least. It’s too bad Apple couldn’t hold the line on this one. Hopefully it will be no more than just commercial podcasts like ESPN. They will kill the service if they put ads in pay-per-view content like TV shows. [...]
More on KVM’s
I wrote about how my old Avocent KVM died. I replaced it with an IOGear KVM that I’ve been very happy with. Before I got the IOGear, I sent a question to the Avocent support guys about whether they thought my old KVM was dead or not. Turns out, they were happy [...]
MySQL’s Falcon
MySQL continues to react to the post-InnoDB era with news on the new Falcon storage engine. I think they are doing a good job of straddling the fence. The InnoDB license was renewed and there is also talk of a Solid developed transaction engine. Whether playing all sides at once is a [...]
Creating a Development Environment
I’ve been spending this week getting my development environment setup. I’ve always hacked around on stuff at home but now that I’m doing some independent development, it’s time to get serious about it. After spending a few days trying out various Linux distributions and some different software packages, I think I have my [...]