Microsoft has made public a beta release of their SFU product – this incorporates Interix, which itself is a POSIX abstraction layer, emulating various functions that most UNIX flavors support, kind of similar to Cygwin – only in an entirely similar, yet different manner.
This beta includes X1...
Yes, yes, yes. I know. I know. I know. I know.
Speaking about Linux distributions is intresting only to, er, three people in the world, and that’s because they each have committed some root piece to each of them.
Anyhow, my ancient mac is beyond painful for Java – it’s 550Mhz, which translates t...
I must admit, I’m not much of a supporter of general television – the last show I watched with ant fevor was ‘Quantum Leap’, and before that, ‘Night Court’ (Yes, I was a rather odd child.).
Aside from the few decent documentaries on Discovery, the three or four shows on the Histroy Channel that ar...
I just had a good laugh whilst having a conversation with a friend of mine who was curious about Darwin/x86. The gist is:
Just install it yourself. I’d need to ask SardonicGit for help so, no ;) Hah. […time passes…] run dos it’s faster and looks the same
Gee, you can tell that he hasn’t even tri...
What follows is an amazingly trivial piece of code that takes your current URL of the page visited and passes it to Google; so if a page is down, you can always see what was there the last time it was archived. It’s not tied to this site; it’s entirely self-contained JavaScript.
Here’s google,...
Bleh. We had a power outage yesterday, and an old disk I was trying to ‘just keep running’ for swap decided to bite it. It was an old 2G of a dubious nature, but still, it was to be my Darwin/X86 testing HD.
As it was time for a rebuild, I backed up a secondary disk which had nothing but old archi...