Author Archives: dru

About 3 weeks ago, I was going to setup a Solaris box we acquired for a particular task in the office. I chose this box and Solaris since I had read great things about ZFS. In the past I would … Continue reading →

Wow – more signal indicating we are in a bubble. Expensive ad-campaigns of women with swords

The other day, I came across this interesting post by Tom Moertel. The blog post is called “A simple directory-tree printer in Haskell”. Haskell is interesting and this kind of programming exercise would really show how Haskell deals with real-world … Continue reading →

Thought provoking video of Linus on GIT. Pretty compelling. I got burned a while back when I discovered the huge merge bug in Subversion (the fact that you can only do it once). I started looking around a while ago … Continue reading →

Is this the new ‘antique’, is this old-fashioned, for the interweb? Beej’s Home Page The above link is broken. It is now at: Beej’s Home Page

I saw this headline in the news: Wolfowitz Blames Media for Resignation Uh, Mr. Wolfowitz, that is the way it is supposed to work. The media is supposed to bring to light problems and issues that organizations typically cannot fix … Continue reading →

As I took a walk around the block today, I noticed that yet another house was being taken apart in that strange California way. Here is what happens. Almost all of the house is torn down and taken away. A … Continue reading →

For the whole weekend, an old plane from WWII has been circling above the bay area. Kinda neat to see something like that still operating.