A Brief History of Unix
Back in 2004, I posted an extremely brief history of Unix to the SDF internal BBS. I recently found a copy of it and am posting it here for posterity.
Recent Articles
Finally, My New Layout
Graphic design is hard!
Total Nerd Meme
It’s like a chain letter, but for Unix nerds.
HOWTO: Get rid of that revolting faux-3D Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
I don’t like relying on undocumented hacks, but I hate Apple’s new Dock so much that I’ll try anything.
Recent Bookmarks
These are periodically retrieved from my my Delicious account.
“How the Hell Do Software Developers Get Groupies?”
All the cool kids use Ruby.
The Classic Unix Horror Story
In this totally awesome story, a team of old-school Unix badasses recovers from a `rm -rf /` without reinstalling the system or even rebooting the machine. The author asks, “if you were placed in the same situation, and had the presence of mind that always comes with hindsight, could you have got out of it in a simpler or easier way?” I wouldn’t have gotten out of it at all.
Steve Jobs Responds to the Antenna Issue: “Just Avoid Holding It In That Way.”
What a dick.
Dan Gillmor: This Mac Devotee is Moving to Linux
So is this one.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Writing Great Documentation
Yes! Do this stuff.
Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network
The main characters in Plato’s Republic use the Socratic method to sell the EZ-Klean mop.
Old New Thing: If Windows 3.11 required a 32-bit processor, why was it called a 16-bit operating system?
“With Enhanced mode, there were actually three operating systems running at the same time. The operating system in charge of the show was the 32-bit virtual machine manager which ran in 32-bit protected mode. As you might suspect from its name, the virtual machine manager created virtual machines. Inside the first virtual machine ran… a copy of Standard mode Windows. [snip] The other virtual machines each ran a copy of MS-DOS and were responsible for your MS-DOS sessions. Recall that Enhanced mode Windows allowed you to run multiple MS-DOS prompts that were pre-emptively multi-tasked. These other virtual machines ran in a variety of modes, but spent most of their time in virtual-86 mode.”
T=Machine: Entity Systems are the Future of MMOG Development
These fascinating and well-written blog posts from 2007 explain a model of software development that is very different from the OOP approach I learned in school and have always used in the workplace.
Twitter Activity
“Using this extension makes me feel like I’m slapping @gruber in the face every time I do a page load. It’s excellent!” http://bit.ly/blYPuq
The iPhone 4’s reception issues are inexcusable. Apple built its reputation with hardware and software that “just works.”
Now “Bill and Ted and Batman’s Excellent Adventure” I can get into. #movieswithbatman
The obvious #movieswithbatman is “Angel and the Batman,” but I’d much rather see “Sex, Lies, Videotape, and Batman.” Then again, maybe not!
RT @malcolmt Yes!! 80’s-style remake of Firefly opening sequence: http://io9.com/5582513/
Great CoffeeScript presentation at #pymntos tonight.
Monthly timesheets are due, and you’re *way* behind? No problem: svn log —revision ‘{2010-06-01}’:HEAD | more
Totally unfair: @BestBuy wants to fire the guy who made those hilarious iPhone v. EVO YouTube videos. http://tinyurl.com/3a8odzw
Wow, there sure are a lot of marijuana-themed apps in the Android Market.
Just switched to Android from an original iPhone. So far, so good.
