Category Computing

Development, Evolved.

In ‘Cosmiblog’, the previous incarnation of my blog (2001-2005), I had written several times about how the Computing industry, as manifested through the development of operating systems, applications, hardware, is stuck in a vicious circle of pointless-reinvention very occasionally disturbed by massive paradigm shifts originating either from brilliant startups or industry leaders aiming to maximise […]

Mel didn't approve of compilers…

I remember reading this in my first year at university. 'Lest a Whole New Generation of programmers Grow up in Ignorance of this Glorious Past...'

A puzzle

Ι played this flash puzzle about a year ago and a friend just reminded me of its existence. If you haven't seen it, you should; it's quite fun. [Check this out too. By the same guy]

Προς τα πίσω.

ADSL. Τρία χρόνια και κάτι, που τελείωσε η αναμονή για τους έλληνες και αντικαταστάθηκε με απογοήτευση. Έβαλα ADSL εβδομάδες αφότου ξεκίνησε η διάθεση στο ευρύ κοινό στην Ελλάδα το καλοκαίρι του 2003. Μια βασική διαφορά μεταξύ της παροχής ADSL στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό ήταν η εξής: η διαφοροποίηση της παροχής της γραμμής (από τον […]

Luxology modo 202

Luxology might be a newcomer to the 3D Modelling scene, but while the company was founded in 2004, most of its executives and a large number of engineers have a long history in the 3D industry, being the team the originally co-founded and wrote NewTek and its product Lightwave 3D. Their first 3D modelling product […]

WWDC'06: OSX Dtraced

XCode 3.0 seems nice! Graphical front-end to Dtrace included; Sun's dtrace is lauded as one of the most impressive dev/admin tools to appear in the last few years and Apple's adoption and integration into XCode is definitely well received. In related news, Apple published the intel kernel sources and introduced MacOSForge.org, a site for Mac OS X open source projects. Well done Apple!