advogato is really interesting. been reading the future of programming comments for a while now. these people seem to know their stuff.
a lot of discussion on tux floating around. man, compare the specweb99 results for dell’s 4 way tux machine to dell’s 4way running iis and to ibm’s rs/6000 8-way running zeus. daym, brother man.
thank you microsoft for making good times a reality. really, thanks.
article on autonomy, just an interesting tangential tie-in to my everday life. oh, and it’s in the vapp. interesting quote: People often just don’t understand the ramifications of that. I don’t think you’re going to be able to sell software in two years’ time that can’t make sense of information, because the amount of unstructured information in business is doubling every three months at the moment.
saltfuck.com – classic, jz
nice flazoom article on fitt’s law (as it applies to flash). funny that there was also a recent msdn article on the same topic.
interesting bit on /. about bladerunner biz and deckard being a replicant according to ridley scott. of course, it should be noted that the numbering difference that the bbc author cites is really a continuity error. jabber posts his argument supporting the deckard as replicant theory.
for me, there really isn’t that much controversey in the director’s cut because of the unicorn dream/origami.
others on /. have pointed out that future noir reveals a disagreement between scott and the screenwriter(s?) about deckard’s nature (afaik also, deckard was not a replicant in dadoes). obviously the director’s cut reflects ridley scott’s opinion, while the original leaves it much more ambiguous (also w/ the tacked on studio ending though…).
red hat certification. interesting. is it better than just going through the ldp guides?