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{ Monthly Archives } October 2003

Bad UI design

This was just too amusing….

2003 10 22 hoanga geek
programming
tech Comments Off on Bad UI design

Bill Joy spills the beans on what is next

Ted Leung summarizes an interview that Fortune did with Bill Joy on what he is doing after leaving Sun now. Looks like an interesting interview. Seems he might be up to make an evolutionary step in building networks that are much less prone to spam and viruses. Good luck! As long as it doesn’t bust […]

2003 10 22 hoanga tech Comments Off on Bill Joy spills the beans on what is next

Circle ID (An interesting site on the Internet)

Check the site out if you’re more interested in many aspects of the Internet. I need to spend more time reading through it myself… But it looks like it explains lots of the nuts and bolts happening at the lower protocol level and the interactions among people to get this thing called the Internet running.

2003 10 21 hoanga tech Comments Off on Circle ID (An interesting site on the Internet)

Squeak for BeOS resurrected?

Been following the Japanese mailing list on Squeak and some postings on a bulletin board about Squeak for BeOS. Is it making a comeback?

2003 10 21 hoanga geek
programming Comments Off on Squeak for BeOS resurrected?

A small peak into how Knoppix works

Caught this on Dan Barlow’s Diary. I’ve been looking at Knoppix, and starting to learn enough about it to beat it into a shape I like. Knoppix is an ISO9660 image, which contains another, compressed, ISO filesystem. The inner filesystem is the root of the running system and contains about 2Gb of software. The outer […]

2003 10 19 hoanga linux Comments Off on A small peak into how Knoppix works

Virtual Memory thrashing sucks

So here I am after a month of not using NetNewsWire Lite so I fire it up innocently with a bunch of my other well used apps in the background. I watch in horror as NetNewsWire eats up all available remaining memory then continue to keep on allocating more and more memory (i managed to […]

2003 10 19 hoanga gripe
mac
osx Comments Off on Virtual Memory thrashing sucks

iTunes for Windows = Cocoa for Windows

Okay here’s a thought… I know that iTunes existed before OS X however there’s a possibility that iTunes could have been ported to Cocoa (or at least some parts of it). If that was the case wouldn’t that mean Apple had quite a bit of Cocoa already ported to Windows and ready to run? That […]

2003 10 19 hoanga mac
windoze Comments Off on iTunes for Windows = Cocoa for Windows

Living in a Mac Wonderland

Another OreillyNet article strikes again… This one summarizing the brainchild behind Rendezvous going to FooCamp which must have been some sort of Oreilly geek conference (Sheesh one of these days I’ll dig up the cash to make it to one of these conferences) and trying to give a talk on Basic Rendezvous and getting trumped […]

2003 10 19 hoanga geek
mac
osx Comments Off on Living in a Mac Wonderland

Network Nazism

I like scanning OreillyNet every once in awhile since some of their articles are quite interesting. And some of the OS X stuff they post on is just wild. Too bad I don’t live in a Mac-rich environment to try our some of that stuff. Ah well. Anyways I was running across a rant on […]

2003 10 19 hoanga gripe
tech Comments Off on Network Nazism

More Offshore news

Got this link from a Slashdot story on Adobe and Product Activation. Not sure how I feel about Quark moving a bit of their engineering offshotre. I wonder if this can explain why there was a huge delay to move to OS X. I can’t imagine an offshore team having a ton of experience with […]

2003 10 19 hoanga tech Comments Off on More Offshore news

Inconsistent updates

I know I’ve been pretty bad about updating this blog but at the moment enough stuff is in flux about getting a network connection at home that blogging tends to escape my mind. Also, I’ve been taking pictures but it’s a chore to get the pictures uploaded to this server for hosting. I’m hoping to […]

2003 10 19 tagme Comments Off on Inconsistent updates

Can Wal-Mart change Japanese retail?

There’s a neat article in Far East Review (Online article requires a subscription) about how Walmart has acquired (or at least a part of) the 5th largest retailer in Japan (Seiyu) and has started a 5 year plan to figure out how to move into Japan. However the article points out that the Japanese public […]

2003 10 11 hoanga japan Comments Off on Can Wal-Mart change Japanese retail?

Gawd I hate Manila!

This weblog is powered by Manila or Radio Userland or whatever it7s called.   It seems that if you try adding a news post lately you get some fancy little text editor which MANGLES html tags which I guess is fine if you cannot write out HTML by hand.  However…  I can and it is really […]

2003 10 06 hoanga gripe Comments Off on Gawd I hate Manila!

Learning a new way

One of the things one must try to get used to in Japan if

2003 10 06 tagme Comments Off on Learning a new way

Hacking Valve isn’t cool

Got this story from Slashdot. One thing interesting about the account is how frank Gabe Newell the spokesperson on this incident for Valve has been. Personally it annoys me that people are DoSing and trying to steal secrets from a game company. Is there new game engine THAT precious to do all this? Sounds more […]

2003 10 02 hoanga geek
gripe Comments Off on Hacking Valve isn’t cool
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