Author: Marc

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...

General

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...

General

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...

GeneralMac

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...

Programming

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...

GeneralProgramming

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...

ProgrammingPython

PyDev tutorial

Want an editor for Python that has a little more horsepower than IDLE? Do you want to edit Python code using the Eclipse IDE? You may want to try PyDev. PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python and Jython...