A recent technology that I keep thinking about is virtual computing, which in my opinion could open up all sorts of really moxious opportunities.
With the advent of multiprocessor (multi-core) consumer processors, I’m wondering how far could virtual system performance be pushed. Currently there are a few solutions that are pretty fast already. A comparison page […]

I’m no fan of RPM, tarball, or DEB packages. Although the latter two aren’t so bad, you can’t honestly expect a normal end-user to spend more than five minutes figuring out how to install a piece of software. I know I can’t, nor can anyone I know — disregard of technical skill. It’s just a […]

Hey kids! Who’s your daddy? Wait, don’t answer that. I’m not your therapist.
This blog could use a good update. I’m going to spare any potential readers with my mundane observations and flat commentary about random topics that nobody is interested in, except me. (Which is what really matters. Me.)
Over a week ago now I returned […]

“Sorry, Linus, but to me, the Linux goal, aka being an incentive to vendors, and an incubator, is over, now is the need for something the user finds usable, and supported.” link
Interesting article I spotted over at OSNews, debating whether OpenSolaris makes a better operating system than Linux. In short, which of the two are […]

Neat little article on OSNews on different kernel designs, written by Thom Holwerda. In the end, he concludes that “[a hybrid kernel] carries characteristics of both an ass as well as a horse, and hence it is classified as a ‘hybrid’.” So, I suppose he’s not a fan of hybrid kernels!
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I love games. Not the kind where you run outside like a complete twit. No my friend, the kind where you lock yourself up in a dark room and fiddle with a machine that would irk your grandmother. Those are awesome.
Game development is an activity that soothes my raging, inner nerd. It allows me to […]

Windows: Reloaded.
Kernel: Recompiled.
Life: Revisited.
Coffee: Drank.
Me: Rules.
You’re looking at The Man 1.5, the greatest accomplishment in the universe. Don’t think so? Nobody asked you to think, hombre. That’s my job.
But my own glory is distracting me. There might still be some bugs creeping up here, there, over in that corner, and so on. If you, gentle […]

I created a very tiny piece of code which counts the number of words in evaluated PHP code, from an included file. Maybe this will come in useful to someone else.

ob_start();
require(’/my/code/here.php’);
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$num_words = count(str_word_count(strip_tags($contents), 1));
print($num_words);

How anticlimatic. I used it to add breadcrumb navigation at the bottom of each page in a Zen-Cart site, if […]

Looks like I’m not the only one that feels Ubuntu is gaining momentum.
I’ve recently switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu, and I’m quite impressed how easy it is to set up! Well, compared to Gentoo, everything is easier anyway.
I honestly hope Ubuntu gains more corporate attention, with software, drivers, and so on.
Ubuntu is one of […]

I found a very good game development resource, and caught this CS related link on Reddit. Some useful information.