DevEdge redesigned and has articles about it:
An interesting note is that Netscape 7 is clocking in at over 15 million downloads. Related: Mozilla, Gecko, Netscape, and the future in AOL
interlude
It occurred to me that I don’t personally know a single person who’s for war in Iraq. In fact, from everything I’ve read and heard, there’s barely anyone in the media who’s for it. So what is this? Where’s the popular support? And if it’s not there, why does it seem that war is inevitable when no one (not at home or in the international community) wants it?
(although at this point, having stripped all our civil rights anyway, I suppose we can stop pretending that we live in any sort of representative country)
One of the Fujitsu SCA drives I picked up a while ago died on me yesterday. Which is fine, that’s why they’re RAIDed. Unfortunately, although it’d start ok, halfway through bootup the ipsraidn.sys RAID driver was invariably causing kernel exceptions. Not much use RAID mirroring if you can’t reboot if a partition goes down.
So, I’m now running Windows XP, which I threw on a spare old IDE drive I have lying around. I just installed a dual DVI Gainward card (GF4) so the switch was pretty much inevitable anyway. Matrox was the only company that bothered to implement dual monitors correctly on W2K. I’m probably going to be laying down for a pay of LCD screens soon.
Now that I have a running system, I decided to put the new video card through it’s paces. Since even with BitTorrent, 3DMark03 is still a few hours away (apparently just released with all the servers completely swamped), I decided to hit up demoo and check out some of the latest demos (still waiting for my Mindcandy DVD). 4X AA and 8x anistropic filtering is nice.
Windows Update: 32 Critical Updates and Service Packs
Recently I’ve been getting around to reading some books that I’ve never got around to reading. I just finished Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine this weekend. One thing I’m always interested in is the ‘where are they now’ type followups (After watching Barry Blaustein’s Beyond the Mat earlier this weekend, I actually went online to see how a bunch of those guys were doing). Suffice to say, when doing these type of things, Google is your friend.
- O’ Engineers! – Dec 2000 follow-up article in Wired (w Eagle team photo w/ current status)
- Tom West: The Soul of a Development Manager – 1996 writeup on Tom West
- DATA GENERAL PUSHES FOR FASTER PROGRESS ON THIN CLIENTS – little blurb on management ignoring West on thin clients (mentioned in Wired article)
- EMC squares up to storage costs and reputation – mention of what some of what West did later on w/ Data General (bought in 1999 for $1.1B by EMC)
- The Machine Room: Data General
- Novas are Forever
- jassamyn.com: Tracy Kidder, BookPage Interview, In His Element: Tracy Kidder
I wasn’t able to find an actual picture of the Eclipse MV/8000 (Eagle).
Oh Say Can You See?
- Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act
- Yahoo! News – N.C. Congressman OK With Internment Camps
- Bill O’Reilly is full of shit
- Bill Moyers interviews Chuck Lewis, also see: breaking news
CAPTCHA – Telling Humans and Computers Apart (Automatically)
Grrr.. Mastering Regular Expressions isn’t in Safari. I’m matching only urls not in or surrounded by anchors. And not cheating by writing a parser like last time.
- Regex for URLs – In this document we discuss the implementation of a program that creates a regular expression to recognize Uniform Resource Locators.
- PCRE Pattern – Extracting URLs
- PHP.net: preg_match, parse_url
- ASPN Cookbook: How to make life easier with URL text highlighting
Hmm, interesting. 20030126+ builds have support for a rich text editor: Midas Demo, part of the Mozilla Editor project
Organic chemistry intrigued me. It tempted me with its secret language of symbols, its demand for (nearly) blind faith in unseen collisions…
- Visual Perception and Design (web design and gestalt theory)
- Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization
- Connected: Nodes & Networks – a new weblog on networked society by Sarah Lai Stirland