tags: UNIX
2003
August
- 2003 Aug 27
- time
Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps.
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2004
April
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- 2004 Apr 4
- emacs carbon
Don't ask me how I got here, but trying to install GNOME 2.6 on my iBook running Panther is taking me to really strange places.
· Read more… - 2004 Apr 9
- virtual hosts and cgi
I had this working before, mostly with the help of this script [citation on macosxhints.com][post on patrickgibson.com] Because of my iBook mishaps, all my tweaks were wiped, and I haven't had the time to reinstate the changes.
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2007
April
- 2007 Apr 2
- the old dilemma: legacy support vs the bleeding edge
OK, so maybe I’m just a touch melodramatic when I say that Windows’ reliance on the 8.3 naming convention makes me sad. And, yes, I do subscribe to the ”worse is better” school of software design, so I agree that you shouldn’t futz around and break something that already works pretty well 95% of the time.
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2008
January
- 2008 Jan 31
- technical merits of microkernels
After switching from Linux to Mac OS X and after playing around with Ruby a little bit, and getting a feel for the philosophies of Objective C and SmallTalk, I guess I'm coming around to Andrew Tanenbaum's thoughts about microkernels.
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March
- 2008 Mar 4
- unix: it's fan-tastic
The great thing about running UNIX is that it's like running around with a loaded
· Read more…gunrocket-launcher with a hair trigger. One of the things that frustrated me the most with Windows is that if something broke, the only reasonable solution was to reformat your hard drive and reinstall.