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Dennis Ritchie (1941—2011)
It’s been a bad year for computing, this one, as we’ve now lost the father of the C Programming Language.
It’s a sad thing to note that whilst Ritchie had as much, if not more, influence on the Computing Industry as Steve Jobs, he’ll only be remembered by a small number of people worldwide: Those of [...]
In other news…
I love the fact that this article points out that Labour is the most Fascist of the British political parties. xD
I really laughed when I saw that graph.
An amusing quote
Most people I know are aware of my total and utter devotion to Zend Framework and the wish that it will replace all other frameworks and render such abominations as Symfony and CakePHP irrelevant.
So, I giggled when I spotted this in the topic of freenode.net’s #zftalk-community channel earlier today:
<freen> Zend Framework is like a really [...]
From one idiot to another…
Almost as soon as I clicked ‘Publish’ on that last post, a friend linked me to this post on boingboing:
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/08/wipo-boss-the-web-would-have-been-better-if-it-was-patented-and-its-users-had-to-pay-license-fees.html
I can’t think of anything that would have been worse for the world than the guys at DARPA filing patents for the Internet.
Lightening the mood somewhat, this, Jen, is the Internet:
Steve Jobs
Well, I do feel kind of bad for leaving this so long, but I’ve revised this several times already before posting it, and it’ll probably get edited a bit after it does finally go live.
Steve Jobs was a visionary without whom the computer industry would not look anything like it does today. I’m willing to [...]
OSX output volume too quiet?
Boom!
It’s on the App Store, and it’s bloody genius.
I’ve gotten better results from the equiliser by putting it onto Loud mode, rather than just boosting the output volume, but it really does make up for all those bollocks videos on YouTube.
PHP SFTP readdir bug
Wasted a couple of hours tracking this bug down.
If you’re trying to connect to an SFTP server using PHP’s libssh2 bindings on Debian, you’ll get an empty result when trying to call readdir() on an opened directory. The fix is easy: uninstall the version from apt and run this instead:
pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/ssh2-0.11.2
That will install the [...]
Today is D-Day
Well, Diana Day, as it’s known at work. We’ve just published an article entitled “Diana at 50” on high50.
I’m now desperately hoping that all the server optimisations and modifications we’ve made over the last three weeks since we found out about it save it from the inevitable slashdotting.
The AV Referendum
Well, I must admit, I’m feeling thoroughly trounced right now, and the result of the referendum hasn’t even been announced.
Of the people I asked, there’s been a definite young/old divide. Everyone I know under 35 has voted for the Alternative Vote electoral system, and everyone I know over 35 has voted against it.
Considering that the [...]
If you’re going to port a console game to the PC, DO IT PROPERLY!!!
I recently purchased Devil May Cry 4 via Steam for the PC.
Today, I installed the game and played it for a grand total of 19 minutes. 16 of those minutes were the multitude of introductory videos, which, admittedly, did include a beautiful piece of music that really could have done with being backed by [...]