Will Mobile Devices Make Flash Stronger?
12 Mar 2010
Yesterday I was playing Flash games with my 5 year old on our Ubuntu desktop. As you may know, Flash support on Linux is dismal. Specifically I was using the Adobe plugin on Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu 9.10 with a powerful NVIDIA GeForce 9600-series graphics card and a speedy Intel Core2 Duo. We played games on flonga.com.
Here are some of the problems that made games unplayable:
Windows vs. Linux (Again)
23 Aug 2009
I use Linux on my home computer and Windows on my work computer. Sometimes I hate to admit it, but there are a lot of good things about Windows. By windows I mean WinXP and Win7. As for Linux, I particularly mean Ubuntu 9.04.
Google Plays Poker
16 Jul 2009
I Love You, Sun
6 Jul 2009
I installed Sun's VirtualBox 3.0 last week. I'm in love.
As of last week, I have no dual boot. Yay! No more juggling partitions. No more fiddling with NTFS from Linux or EXT3/4 from Windows. No more waiting for full restarts. I'm always in Ubuntu and run Windows 7 on top. It is great for a few programs my wife uses that don't work under wine.
A One-Question Job Interview
25 Jun 2008
Interesting article on the perfect interview question.
When reviewing somebody else's code, what is it that you usually find most disturbing?