The random ramblings of Micah Cowan. Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer…
What would it be like if the only person who could ever fix problems with your house was the contractor who built it originally? That is the kind of imposition that's involved in proprietary software.
Richard Stallman, http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview.html
A very sobering story of the complete and utter abuse of the rights of a couple and their friends, because an overly sensitive photo-shop employee called the police when he saw pictures of the couple’s children, playing naked on a campground, and playing with beer bottles as musical instruments. Seen at digg.
It’s space invaders, but the artist is using real, live people for the pixels! Amazingly well done.
I first saw it on my friend Mars’s blog, and later this youtube version was on digg.
I’ve just put up a project page for checkmk; a tool to ease the process of writing unit tests in C using the Check unit testing framework.
This is just an FYI (I promised to post about it when I was ready). It will be of zero interest to folks who don’t use Check.
Found this on digg. It has to be the best pacman strategy guide I’ve seen yet. It doesn’t just tell you what to do, but why; and also gives you checkpoints and hints on what you should be seeing, and how to tell if you’ve gotten offtrack or your timing is off. It’s designed to allow for your own personal timing idiosyncrasies, and teach you how to discover/improve patterns of your own.
http://www.mameworld.net/pacman/
Updated link: http://www.mameworld.info/net/pacman/