Nov 19, 2011

QNX CRASHED MY CAR

THE Q-N-X OPERATING SYSTEM IS A BAG OF HURT COMMA AND I KNOW BECAUSE I'M SITTING AT HOME WITH MY ARMS WRAPPED IN CASTS FROM MY SHOULDERS TO MY FINGERTIPS AFTER MY CAR CRASHED INTO A RAVINE PERIOD TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS IF YOU DRIVE COMMA OR ARE THINKING OF BUYING COMMA A CAR RUNNING THIS QUOTE REALTIME UNQUOTE OPERATING SYSTEM PERIOD

I BOUGHT A NEW CAR LAST YEAR BECAUSE I WANTED THE MOST EFFICIENT DRIVE OUT THERE COMMA MEANING A V8 ENGINE RUNNING Q-N-X PERIOD IF Q-N-X CAN RUN HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT THAT KEEPS PEOPLES HEARTS BEATING AND LUNGS BREATHING THEN IT MUST BE OKAY TO RUN A CAR ENGINE COMMA RIGHT QUESTION MARK THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT AT LEAST PERIOD

Nov 13, 2011

Game Review: Legend of the Ancients (1988)

I picked up a pretty cool video game last weekend called Legend of the Ancients, an old roleplaying game for C64 from 1988. To win you have to battle the evil Duke Durthane, who kills the king and rapes the prince every night. After opening the three power scrolls you become a dungeon-master and fight him to the death.

Nov 11, 2011

QNX 6.5 Plagued by Performance Problems

Tonight, I installed QNX 6.5 on my new PC that I bought just a few weeks ago. It isn't top of the line, but it's more than adequate for daily Internet and office stuff, and even a little gaming and compiling. And while I know that QNX isn't the fastest operating system in the world due to its realtime nature, I was more than a little underwhelmed by its performance—especially for development.

Nov 4, 2011

A Brief History of the ASCII Penis

Man has always sought to create, and has indeed done so since time immemorial: mathematics, civilization, language. Some of his modest efforts have reached the realm of art, especially as influenced by the primacy of his ability to create. And it is that very intersection that we discuss today: the ASCII penis.

Oct 2, 2011

NetBSD: Designed to Fail

While FreeBSD and Linux are hard to shake, I gave NetBSD a glance recently and found some serious problems that not only made me secure in my choice to stay with FreeBSD and Linux, but also compelled me to write this mini-review of NetBSD.

Oct 1, 2011

Why I Uninstalled OpenBSD

I uninstalled OpenBSD the other day after using it since OpenBSD 2.7 came out eleven years ago. I had grown used to it and contributed too, following the OpenBSD mailing lists and even submitting code a couple of times. But when I began thinking seriously about security, things began to change.