Gros. Anglosaxon junk food vs. La Cuisine Française
The BBC's Caroline Wyatt's recent foray on the French Way Of Life, this time through their culinary habits and their lack of fat [sic]. Funny. Descriptive.
Category Pointers
AppleDefects
Useful site, for those contemplating getting a used Mac or just waiting for newer revisions and knowing what to watch out for. Needless to say, the golden rule of thumb is: Never get a Rev. A Apple machine. They almost always suck.
The Evil Face of Air Conditioning
Quite a good article in putting things into perspective.
No wonder Apple's QA is failing.
Net neutrality is dead.
"This strikes at the heart of the free and equal nature of the internet".
A few months after Nikon, now Canon says goodbye to film.
Good riddance. All Hail the Digital Era, etc. I just hope they fix the dusty_sensor issue on DSLRs. Pronto.
Sand Art.
A friend sent me this link of Ilana Yahav drawing with sand on a back-illuminated screen. A very impressive demonstation of her artistic prowess on this uncommon medium. Definitely worth seeing.
The Steve on CNBC
Here's an interview with The Steve. Content-free (as usual), but interestingly enough he manages to dodge the 'international market' question --- which is a valid one: Some small countries in the EU even lack official Apple presence and suffer from sub-par services provided by sub-par IMCs (hint hint). That's probably the last of his concerns, I guess.
Shellcodes, explained.
Many friends often ask me 'What are buffer overflows?' or 'What is an exploit' and often they are people with some programming experience but little or no understanding of lower level programming. I usually describe the process in simple terms and if someone wants more info I refer them to a good book or an online tutorial. This article is a very good short introduction for someone quasi-knowledgeable in C and/or some x86 asm with a casual interest in security.
The day-after Apple woes.
In 2001, they touted Titanium. They Failed. Then they turned to anodised aluminium. They Failed once again. It's been slightly more than a day since the Macbook came out. It seems that it flakes. They probably failed again...Where did that QA dept. go?
In other news, OS X is no longer Open Source at any level [1] as Apple removed the source for the Intel version of the OS. Very sad. Back in 2002 they were advertising its 'Openness':
I guess all that rhetoric just joined the QA dept. :)Open at the Source
The Darwin project coordinates contributions from thousands of programmers in the open source community. Through the open source model, Apple engineers and the open source community collaborate to create a better, faster and more reliable foundation for Mac OS X.