Link of the Day [5.29.08]

broderic on May 29, 2008

This is a post that most likely should come from my buddy, Wyman, over at JadedWings, but he’s busy doing his own thing so let me tell you about.

TCM is doing race and cinema with Asian actors. Every Tuesday and Thursday they’ll show movies that have asian actors. The one I am most looking forward to is The Bitter Tea of General Yen which stars my fave, Barbara Stanwyck, who is seduced by the oriental devil. Nice. Anyway, try to catch some of these movies because I said so. You’ve got Tivo correct?

http://www.tcm.com/2008/aif/index.jsp

Link of the Day [5.28.08]

broderic on May 28, 2008

Mac Clones. Sounds like something out of Star Wars. Yet, the mid nineties did have Apple sanctioned alternative machines. They were nice. You could configure them like a dell. But it ate into Apple’s profits and probably contributed to the late nineties Apple malaise. Steve Jobs comes in and kills that deal. Apple creates the iMac and starts its climb back to greatness.

This is notice that for Apple to survive they must keep making their own boxes. Fake Apple stuff sucks. Don’t buy that fake Apple stuff.

http://www.macworld.com/article/133598/2008/05/macclones.html

Link of the Day [5.20.08]

broderic on May 20, 2008

Someone fixes a 25 year old bug in the BSD Unix.

“Who cares? I don’t use Unix anyway,” you might say. Sorry, it’s what’s running beneath the pretty Aqua interface of Mac OS X.

It’s a rather trivial bug, very low level and such. Yet, I wonder why it took this long to find a fix. The open source model of software development touts the fact that with the source available to anyone and everyone all bugs are shallow. That is it should take a short time to find a fix. Yet, the bug fix was just submitted recently!

The funny thing is that it was a known bug. Was it reported to code maintainers? There were programs that knew of the BSD problem and created workarounds for it. Somethings wrong with this the BSD development to let this go untouched for so long.

http://osnews.com/story/19731/The-25-Year-Old-UNIX-Bug