My esteemed friend Chris Cannam is a genius sometimes. You can witness his general expertness here on the BBC website regarding Vuvuzela removal for the World Cup. As I said to him last week, if we’d had sold this thing we could’ve been millionaires…. he’s heard all of that before though.
Posted in Music, Science, Sport, Technology
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attracting-Young-Developers
So people finally worked out that there’s something useful they can do with their lives eh? Like build a cathedral out of matchsticks.
Posted in Technology
Chatroulette is a website that allows you to connect your webcam to other webcams – randomly.
Some people have a sense of humour:
And some people don’t:
The only person I chatted with simply had a sign saying “Hit next for more cocks”. I wish I’d thought of that.
Posted in Life, Technology
Posted in Science, Technology
http://news.swpat.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patents/
Thanks to Slashdot for this one. An interesting article on how to actually deal with software patents in a practical fashion. This is the first technical article I’ve actually ever read on software patents and a) I’m very glad that I did read it and b) I’m glad I waited this long to read the first one. I mean do people actually care about them?
Anyway the guy who did this presentation is Andrew Tridgell – the same guy who wrote a marvellous little bit of kit called ccache:
Back in the day it was all ccache and distcc to make those pesky Linux builds go faster..
And of course valgrind to fix them…
Posted in Technology
