Sudoku for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X
Here's an open source Sudoku game that works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X: Michael Sweet's FLTK-based Sudoku game...
Month: December 2005
Playing with the QEMU emulator on Mac OS X
On occasion, it might be nice to run Windows or Linux on my PowerBook, but I don't yet have Virtual PC. So I tried the free QEMU emulator today. According to Free OS Zoo, the best way to run QEMU on the Mac is to use Q, a Cocoa...
In-N-Out biblical verses
My colleague Todd mentioned yesterday at lunch that American west coast burger chain In-N-Out Burger prints the notations of biblical verses on their soda cups. This was wacky enough that I felt the need to check it and get more...
Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us
I'm excited to learn that Yahoo has acquired the "social bookmarking" site, del.icio.us. This should lead to some del.icio.us integrations with Yahoo! MyWeb, Flickr, Upcoming.org, Konfabulator and who knows what else... Links...
CornerClick: interesting Mac freeware
CornerClick is a nice freeware program that lets you assign actions (including AppleScript) to the screen corners (with or without modifier keys) in Mac OS X Panther and up. It worked well for me on Tiger, except that I couldn't...
Version Control with Subversion
If you're interested in the Subversion version control system, you might be interested in this free online book. I've been reading it over the past couple of days and it's been quite interesting. Version Control with Subversion...
UNIX event notification mechanisms
The following page talks about the "C10K problem", that is how to get Web servers to scale to the point that they can handle 10,000 concurrent connections. Along the way, there are some interesting tidbits about how to design...