Why Does Windows Still Suck? from the San Francisco Gate. Mark Morford asks the question: why do people put up with Windows? Unfortunately, he can't find an answer.
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ER runs and contesting speeding tickets.
Also, I released a new program yesterday:
MissingPy. It's a link between Haskell and Python. This marks the fifthh major language link to Haskell, after C, C++, .NET, and Java. With my Python library, I was able to add bzip2 support to Haskell in under 10 lines of code. Sweet. This one binding knocks out most of the things on my todo list.
Comments
Tue, 26.08.2008 15:46
On a Decwriter IV, the print h ead usually obscures the last couple of characters before th e text. There is a speci [...]
Tue, 26.08.2008 11:29
I should have warned you. It only works on wheat.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:31
John, the comment I left on th e previous post belongs up her e. Sorry.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:28
John, I tried your 'TERM=escpt erm telnet localhost > /dev/lp 0' trick and I still have wee ds in my corn field.
Mon, 25.08.2008 11:23
One of the mailing lists I'm o n was looking for one too[0]. Lord only knows what evil they want it for ;-) When I [...]
Mon, 25.08.2008 08:46
On a teletype the typebar move s out of the way immediately a fter each character is printer . You can see what you a [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 23:12
Ah, the AB1 is probably the be st single best piece of machin ery I've ever owned. It has b een reliably waking me u [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 20:48
In classic ribbon type printer s the print head would jump up , print, return down, such tha t if typing slowly you c [...]