Great Hackers
by Marshall on July 29, 2004
Paul Graham has written an interesting article about Great Hackers. It covers topic such as the popularity of programming languages, open source tools, design, workplace environment Some quotes that I like: . A great programmer might be ten or a (…)
What’s up with Page Rankings
by Marshall on July 27, 2004
After hearing about Google being down because of the latest variant of the MyDoom virus, I decided to test to see if they were still down. Out of all the random words that I could type in, i used search (…)
Nautilus Locations
by Marshall on July 21, 2004
Nautilus has a few shortcuts that you can type into the location bar. The most common ones are burn:/// and fonts:///. But did you know that there are a few more? computer:/// This will open the Computer view. It is (…)
Jim Morrison is alive?
by Marshall on July 21, 2004
This really brightened a rainy Wednesday morning. Looks like Lindows/Linspire is gearing up on the marketing edge. It is probable a nice distribution but I don’t think that I would switch from Gentoo.
Using GNU Awk
by Marshall on July 20, 2004
I needed to search a VB6 project for instances of a pattern which signifies a data access call. Time to call upon our trusty GNU tools thanks to cygwin. call DataAccess(True, Conn, 120, “sp_SelectSomeData”, Parameter1, Parameter2…) Say I have a (…)
Weekend
by Marshall on July 18, 2004
This weekend was almost unexciting. I spent some time reading by the lake, but it was really breazy and I started to get annoyed so I went back home. It is really nice living so close to the lake and (…)
26 Things
by Marshall on July 12, 2004
Sh1ft.org organized a photographic scavender hunt 26 Things is a fun photographic game – no winners list, no prizes handed out. On a given date, 26 items are posted on the website and participants set out to photograph each item (…)