There’s a great interview
with Cory Doctorow over at O’ReillyNet. (But why is “shit” okay to
print, but “d–k” redacted from the interview?)
Archive for February, 2003
Well, so, I guess this is the final word on this
quarter’s layoffs.
Todd wrote recently on the ex-be mailing list:
Eric S. Raymond has a new book called The Art Of Unix Programming in draft. In a section comparing other OSes to Unix (for some definition of “Unix”), he gives a survey of BeOS that is quite complimentary, bordering on wistful. His only comment regarding BeOS’s non-open-sourceness is the following:
“Entry barriers to BeOS development were low; though the operating system was proprietary, development tools were inexpensive and full documentation was readily available.”
Sweet, sweet rain!
26 Feb
2003
[14:12] * ctate has been shopping at REI for 20+ years [14:12] <dsandler> Make a selection, already.
≡ 2:18 pm
[14:12] * ctate has been shopping at REI for 20+ years
[14:12] <dsandler> Make a selection, already.
[14:13] <ctate> . o O ( i still can’t find the checkout aisle! )
[14:12] <dsandler> Make a selection, already.
[14:13] <ctate> . o O ( i still can’t find the checkout aisle! )
Mark Pilgrim is on the front lines of web spidering hell.
NSLog(): “Bare Bones Now Officially Sucks” (not really) for discontinuing the venerable BBEdit Lite.
[10:19] <Trey> dsandler: VIM will take you back. Come back to VIM!
Happy Tuesday, everyone! My dieselsweeties guest comic runs today, alongside outstanding work by Greg Stephens and Jose-Luis Olivares. I hope you like it!
Hint: Each of the diary entries is a hyperlink …
3:45pm up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 3.69, 1.57, 0.59
Returning to normal.
Also disturbing:
3:25pm up 14 days, 17:49, 7 users, load average: 616.10, = 692.95, 705.32
Yowsa. Let’s hope a reboot clears this up.
So, this is never good:
Broadcast message from root (pts/7) Mon Feb 24 15:37:09 2003…
The system is going down for reboot NOW !!
By the time you see this message, dsandler.org will have come back up = already. (I hope!)
Tabbed browsing in Safari
exists. I have seen it.
Oh, man. I hope Darryl is current
on his web hosting account — his steenkin-badges page has been
MetaFiltered.
John Mayer: “I was going to Berklee College of Music in 1997. My mom and
dad would give me $250 a month to spend, but I started overdrawing from
the bank, so I was below broke. My dad sent me a check for $250 and
wrote, “John, remember me when you go platinum.” I held onto that note
through everything. Two days ago, he got his platinum plaque with that
very piece of paper inside the glass.” [Rolling
Stone, via matt]
21 Feb
2003
[11:07:53] <dsandler> Your shareware article is getting some coverage in the blogosphere today.
≡ 11:22 am
[11:07:53] <dsandler> Your shareware article
is getting some coverage in the
blogosphere today.
[11:08:12] <Slava Karpenko> that’s good =)
[11:08:53] <Slava Karpenko> what do you think about that?
[11:09:59] <dsandler> Of course, some of the reaction is respectful disagreement, which you should also be pleased with. I think that a lot of the negative response, though, comes from people who enjoyed the cachet of shareware, as developers: It’s a little club of ‘’good guys'’. Perhaps we need a new moniker for these commercial outfits and individuals; ‘’Independent Developer'’ or ‘’Small Developer'’ just don’t have the ring that ‘’Shareware'’ did.
[11:10:41] <Slava Karpenko> yeah, i agree
[11:11:28] <dsandler> ‘’Vigilante Software Developers'’
[11:11:40] <Slava Karpenko> Smileware!
[11:11:56] <dsandler> ‘’If you like this software, please smile as you send us money'’
[11:12:12] <Slava Karpenko> sounds good ;-)
[11:12:27] <dsandler> Alternative: Peopleware. ‘’There are real people at the other end of this software product.'’
[11:14:57] <Slava Karpenko> as if commercial titles are made by drones ;-)
[11:15:11] <dsandler> Aren’t they? :)
[11:15:28] <dsandler> (dsandler realizes he’s working on commercial software in the other window; discovers that he’s a drone)
[11:15:46] <Slava Karpenko> lol
[11:08:12] <Slava Karpenko> that’s good =)
[11:08:53] <Slava Karpenko> what do you think about that?
[11:09:59] <dsandler> Of course, some of the reaction is respectful disagreement, which you should also be pleased with. I think that a lot of the negative response, though, comes from people who enjoyed the cachet of shareware, as developers: It’s a little club of ‘’good guys'’. Perhaps we need a new moniker for these commercial outfits and individuals; ‘’Independent Developer'’ or ‘’Small Developer'’ just don’t have the ring that ‘’Shareware'’ did.
[11:10:41] <Slava Karpenko> yeah, i agree
[11:11:28] <dsandler> ‘’Vigilante Software Developers'’
[11:11:40] <Slava Karpenko> Smileware!
[11:11:56] <dsandler> ‘’If you like this software, please smile as you send us money'’
[11:12:12] <Slava Karpenko> sounds good ;-)
[11:12:27] <dsandler> Alternative: Peopleware. ‘’There are real people at the other end of this software product.'’
[11:14:57] <Slava Karpenko> as if commercial titles are made by drones ;-)
[11:15:11] <dsandler> Aren’t they? :)
[11:15:28] <dsandler> (dsandler realizes he’s working on commercial software in the other window; discovers that he’s a drone)
[11:15:46] <Slava Karpenko> lol
Slava Karpenko: Shareware Is
Dead.
While trolling through the archives
of Cat & Girl, I discovered another gem. “What about Joss
Whedon? You like him.”
21 Feb
2003
[08:55] <willy> i solved some of my bandwidth problems, found a bandwidth thief in my house [08:56] <willy> I hung my teenage son out the…
≡ 9:43 am
[08:55] <willy> i solved some of my bandwidth problems, found a
bandwidth thief in my house
[08:56] <willy> I hung my teenage son out the window by his ankles and my access time is now much improved
[08:57] <willy> he promised not to download during work hours and i promised to open the window first next time
[08:56] <willy> I hung my teenage son out the window by his ankles and my access time is now much improved
[08:57] <willy> he promised not to download during work hours and i promised to open the window first next time
