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

Link of the Day [5.17.08]

broderic on May 17, 2008

MegaTokyo is about to explode! Not really, but here’s a couple of American guys who are writing their own web anime. You can also get the dead tree version in your local comic store.

I never really got into it, but it’s an interesting link nonetheless

http://www.megatokyo.com/

Link of the Day [5.15.08]

broderic on May 15, 2008

So, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve started a new daily (!!) feature to the site, Quote/Link of the Day. It’s tough to keep that up, especially the quotes. So here’s a site for all software engineers to reference. They got some choice nuggets in there.

Read it and you’ll come to understand the profound difficulty that software development is.

http://www.softwarequotes.com/

Link of the Day [5.13.08]

broderic on May 13, 2008

I like riding my bike for recreation. I am sure I would love riding my bike for transportation. If only we can be serious about our transportation infrastructure, then maybe we can create a country with choices for moving about. I’m not advocating for bikes, but for a practical and sensible approach to our future needs.

The Streets Blog discusses “livable streets.” It’s a good resource to read for ideas about sensible uses of our streets for a better living.

http://www.streetsblog.org/

Link of the Day [5.12.08]

broderic on May 12, 2008

I took an animation class while in film school. I liked it plenty.

I use to read CartoonBrew daily just because it seemed to be connected with the industry. I like their stance on dearth of hand drawn animation in the US.

If you love animation, then you can do no wrong than by visiting today’s link.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/