Monthly Archives: February 2008

Shackles and Chains

Software licensing is one of the biggest expenses of high-end server systems. The vendors charge you not only to use the software, but they charge you for how efficiently you want to use the software as well. IBM, for example, charges a different license fee for AIX determined by how many cpus are [...]

Oranges and Oranges

A couple of months ago Linux Magazine published an article written by Scott Granneman comparing Mac OS X Leopard and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I’ve been torn between these two systems, and their respective predecessors since they came out, so the article was of great interest to me. As a matter of fact, I [...]

VentureCake » Blog Archive » 10 Linux shell tricks you don’t already know. Really, we swear.

VentureCake » Blog Archive » 10 Linux shell tricks you don’t already know. Really, we swear.
Great list of tips from VentureCake, well worth the read.

10.5.2 Broke my Yojimbo

I updated to Mac OS X 10.5.2 last night, as did %80 of other mac users, and now Yojimbo is refusing to launch.
Looks like we are going to need an update soon. Yojimbo is an excellent example of a closed source application using an open source, well documented data storage medium. Yojimbo uses SQLite [...]