Al Hoang

July 25, 2006

An interesting Plan 9 Review

Filed under: tagme — @ 8:53 am

Penguin Pete took a whirlwind test drive of Plan 9 and posted a review

here. I found his review quite

informative and I learned a bit from his travails trying to get the hang of

Plan 9. One thing that was disappointing was reading his comments. It

seems there are some people who have to flaunt their knowledge…

Your list of downsides demonstrates you ignorance. Start by learning what the Send menu option is for (middle click in Acme win does th same). And learn to use ^F and the ” and “” scripts. Reading the man pages before making clueless claims due to not knowing how the system is a bad idea.

While I can understand the viewpoint of the nasty commentor to some extent.

It is that type of attitude that can easily turn me off. If you

look at it from the person trying to step into something new…

it is hard enough slipping out of

some well-worn shoes to try out those new fangled sneakers without being

ridiculed for it. (No good deed goes unpunished?)

I don’t find it acceptable behavior to being snapping at someone when

they honestly don’t know and are not trying to be malicious. However

there are times when I would snap. Here are couple of situations

where I would:

  • It’s pretty obvious they are trying to slander X
  • They have been repeatedly told the SAME thing over and over and REFUSE

    to follow said advice and continue to complain.

Read the review yourself.

An expat’s view of life in Vietnam

Filed under: tagme — @ 8:34 am

Here’s one expat’s impressions after spending a year in Vietnam. He compares

it to life in China…

In China, the most common observations were:

  • No one speaks Chinese to foreigners
  • No such thing as lining up
  • Spitting

Read it yourself

Amusing Quotes on Microsoft stuff

Filed under: tagme — @ 8:34 am

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Microsoft’s Outlook email client (historically, the world’s flypaper of security bugs)

-Jeffrey Friedl

Read it yourself

A humorous summary on Blu-Ray versus HD DVD

Filed under: tagme — @ 8:34 am

If you are one of those waiting to get onto the HD bandwagon I’m

sure you’re now wondering which format will win out. Blu-Ray or

HD-DVD. I have no answers but Cracked.com

has a rather tongue-in-cheek

breakdown

on the format wars

My personal opinion? Stay away until the dust clears if you can live

without being able to see the nose hairs on all your favorite actors.

Read it yourself

The mubot

Filed under: tagme — @ 8:34 am

This looks very cool

If the picture doesn’t seem clear, it’s a little robot that acts

as a portable mini speaker for your music devices

Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up from

Quick Journal.

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