Having dabbled in a ton of different languages lately, I felt the overwhelming urge this week just to get back to some good ol’ C, and what better and more productive way to do so that to mess around with ncurses!
Tuesday 16th February 2010
Saturday 19th December 2009
Some less than stellar news about Palm is being reported by Kevin Kelleher over at GigaOm.
The latest grim plot twist came last week when Palm reported its fiscal second-quarter earnings. Smartphones sold to consumers fell 4 percent from a year ago, before Palm even debuted the Pre. A costly ad campaign sank gross margins to 25.6 percent from 27.9 percent a quarter earlier.
Saturday 21st November 2009
A person from university asked me today why I like watching anime because he "[didn't] get it". Funny thing is I can’t quite explain it myself, but in this next series of posts I’m going to try.
Saturday 14th November 2009
Today’s favourite photo I found on the internets is the one included above for your convenience. Really, there’d be no point talking about a photo I’d found without showing you what it was, otherwise for all you know I could have been making it up. It’s an integrity thing.
Thursday 12th November 2009
After doing some more experimenting with the unstable release of Debian, I so royally messed up my ThinkPad I decided to wipe it clean and start again! For a change and given 12 is coming in 6 days, I thought I’d try out Fedora. So far I’m impressed. Now if only it could take screenshots and go on standby…!
Thursday 05th November 2009
Hard hitting stuff.
Thursday 29th October 2009
Sometimes a short train trip late at night through the Marias Pass train route in northern Montana with the 2001 era DirectX graphics and sky is just what I need to relax just before going to sleep.
I first got Train Simulator in 2002, it was the first game I tried on my desktop at the time, the first game I tried running with Boot Camp with my then-new MacBook Pro in early 2006 (Windows gaming on a MacBook Pro), and is still one of the reasons I keep a copy of Windows XP lying around for the 3D acceleration in software like VMware Fusion.
For someone who moved around so much as a kid and could never have huge trainsets, this was the closest I ever got, and I still find it fun :).
Monday 26th October 2009
I know you all love my pointless milestone posts, so here’s one celebrating a new achievement here on the Rubénerd Blog: the publishing of my 2222nd post! Not only is that number greater than 2221, but the same digit is repeated four times! The next time this will happen is 3333 which is 1111 posts away from now, wonder what it’ll be about? What am I talking about, it’ll probably be about the fact I reached 3333 posts, which not only would be an achievement because that number is greater than 3332, but the same digit is repeated four times!
Tuesday 20th October 2009
Barely had I finished that previous whimsical post about DOS nostalgia than something arrived in the mail that I just have to ramble on about here now too! I’ll pretend it was intentional. Yeah, that works :).
I wasn’t born when the DEC PDP-8 computer came out and was only a few months old when the Commodore 128D did with it’s Zilog Z80 awesomeness, so the earliest nostalgic computer memories I have are of our old DOS machine from the early 90s. As I’ve said here many times before we ran DOS with PowerMenu and originally Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions, then Windows 3.1.
