Link Roundup
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on 04 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
The best of the Internet today, according to me:
OpenBSD 4.5 comes out May 1st, but is available on their site now. Check out the changelog.
For whatever reason, they don’t provide a torrent. (Likely because, unlike Ubuntu, it’s rarely distributed as one ISO.) I’d assume the mirrors...
Biden
So it’s not secret that I’m a pretty strong supporter of Obama. I even volunteered on the campaign–when Obama was the underdog in the race. And I think the first 101 days have been great. (The fact that the polls turned from 20% of the country thinking the country was headed in the...
Absolutely Nothing Happens
We were talking quite some time ago at college about how gay marriage had been legal in Massachusetts for a few years. Despite all the hubbub about it being the end of the world–or the greatest thing since sliced bread–we came to the conclusion that it was a complete non-issue. None of us...
Pirates
After reading about a series of pirate attacks last year—back then an almost laughably bizarre occurrence—I became interested in the concept of modern piracy, something I, like many average citizens, was unaware still went on. I picked up a copy of John Burnett’s Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy...
Deal Roundup
My post this week will probably reflect a clear bias towards good deals on LCDs, since I’m itching to pick up another one. There are some other good ones in here, too, though:
Dell S2409W 24″ LCD, 1920×1080, for $199. (via FatWallet)
HP W2338H 23.3″ LCD, 1920×1080, $220 minus...
The 10TB iSCSI SAN
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on 04 24th, 2009 | No Comments
From the, “I’m not entirely sure how I got here” section of the Internet comes this SAN on eBay. At $2,000 it’s a little out of my price range, but it’s pretty much what I’ve wanted for a long time: a box that will just sit in the corner, but that also kicks butt....
Unapologetic
Apparently, a company wrote an application for the iPhone called Baby Shaker. It depicts a crying baby, and you vigorously shake the iPhone to make it stop, at which point its eyes are replaced by X’s.
Apple pulled the application from its store and apologized, saying, “This app is deeply...
Free Mac Programs I Love
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on 04 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
I’ve been running a Mac as my work machine for a while now. (And, since it’s a laptop, it tends to become my personal machine somewhat, too.) Excluding things that are specific to programming, here are a few tools I don’t think I could live without–and they’re all free!
smcFanControl....
Building a Better Camera
Thinking about a $22,000 lens got me thinking about “real” cameras a bit more. And it occurred to me that Canon is in kind of a weird spot right now.
Their flagship camera has always been the EOS-1. With digital it was the 1D, which was followed by a 1Ds. The s designates that it’s...