An Evil Trend

I finally ripped out the updates from An Evil Trend. I was discussing this with Chris yesterday, and...

Mar 1st

Listen

The intro keyboard solo could be its own song.

Mar 1st

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Mar 1st

garfield minus garfield

Feb 28th

“It doesn’t matter. Half of them will agree with you,...”
— Via today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del

Feb 27th

F Minus

Feb 27th

Monoprice.com

Feb 26th

“It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you...”
— Tim Berners-Lee - Hypertext...

Feb 25th

How’d I miss the memo on this one? To emulate a VT100 terminal on OS X open up Terminal and...

Feb 23rd

Canonical

The canonical “Hello World”, as done on Plan 9: #include <u.h> #include...

Feb 22nd

I was trying to remember how I found out about Plan 9. Well,...

Feb 22nd

“For instance, the directory /bin is built as a union of...”
— Plan 9 documentation

Feb 20th

The TILE64 from Tilera Corporation, an FPGA with...

Feb 20th

Changes

Feb 20th

I recently learned of this trick on OS X: $ open <file> will open <file> as though...

Feb 20th

How awesome is plan 9? This awesome: $ cat /sys/lib/kbmap/dvorak > /dev/kbmap

Feb 19th

“My point is that there’s never really a “silver...”
— Jon Stokes - Mysterious chip...

Feb 19th

Plan 9 lives! Virtualization courtesy Q.

Feb 18th

Lguest: The Simple x86 Hypervisor

Feb 18th

Just opened up my computer. That fan’s been stuck like...

Feb 18th

“I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked...”
— Six Principles for Making New...

Feb 18th

Scheduled downtime

An Evil Trend will be down for a little while, starting at about 5:00 today. Update: back online.

Feb 15th

Nanotubes debut as "last mile" interconnect...

Feb 15th

Not actually a bad idea. From xkcd.

Feb 15th

“The compiler is essentially creating a record of execution;...”
— D’Arcy Lemay, regarding...

Feb 15th

Firefox Beta 3 for OS X.

Feb 14th

Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek

Feb 14th

Watch

Feb 14th

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Feb 14th

Possible names for future computers, based on X-Men villains: Mr. Sinister Callisto ...

Feb 14th

Spore is going to be an awesome game. Can’t wait.

Feb 13th

“ISS Science Officer Don Pettit reports in his journal that...”
— Slashdot | Outer Space has a...

Feb 13th

Intel shows off Tukwila, first 2 billion...

Feb 12th

zanshin.net » Blog Archive » Wistful...

Feb 12th

Sending an S O S for a PC Exorcist - New York...

Feb 11th

Eric: dilip is in the 474 book!
Devrin: no way
Devrin: where?
Eric: the "To Probe Further" section
Eric: "A great overview of the testing challenges and solutions for high-performance microprocessors can be found in [Bhavsar01]"
...
Devrin: what a character

Feb 11th

Turns out that evenize(s,t) interlocking instruction will work, given the following protocol: At...

Feb 10th

Somebody needs to come up with a website that makes it painless for me to check my local gas...

Feb 10th

Watch

I admit: I never expected game graphics to get this good. The PS3 is an absolute beast. Can’t...

Feb 10th

Say cheese.

Feb 10th

An Evil Trend

Feb 9th

blueprintcss - Google Code

Feb 9th

<samsim> I heard about this guy who broke into a lion's den at the zoo
<samsim> and got mauled
<samsim> and people were talking about how there should have been better defences put up to prevent people getting into the cage
<samsim> a friend of mine suggested setting up some kind of deterrent
<samsim> for example, putting some sort of fierce animal in the cage, which would attack anybody who climbed in

Feb 8th

Listen

Funkiest song I’ve heard in a while. This beat is sampled on “My Name Is” by...

Feb 8th

Explicitly parallel instruction computing -...

Feb 8th

Interlocking instruction: evenize(s,t) := < t := s; s := s << 1 > So would this...

Feb 8th

“rehab is for quitters.”

Feb 7th

Penny Arcade! - The Insuperable Barrier Of...

Feb 7th

I’m branching out and starting this tumblelog. It’s mainly to move the less important...

Feb 7th