Archive for June 8th, 2005

Sharks, Fins, and the Itanium

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

A history of moving from RISC to CISC chips.

Sharks, Fins, and the Itanium

  

A million spam messages a day

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

I get about 100 spam messages a day and Mail.app does a pretty darn good job of stopping them. I haven’t had one slip through or had a false-positive in the last couple of weeks.

It would be a touch different if I were getting a million spam messages a day.

Mail Filtering – Introduction

It’s nice that we don’t have spam problems on the blog anymore either. We’re actually doing something similar to some of the things this guy suggests. We force spammer’s computers to do a calculation and then require them to read a scrambled code.

  

Apple + Intel

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

This is from /. so it automatically goes under “geek”.

“Apple plus Intel makes me think ‘nipple’.”

I’ve been doing some reading and I think my next computer is going to be purchased in June 2006. When the first Mactel system comes out.

I got the cross-compilers to write my own code for it today.

  

Cars

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005  thoughtful

I think I’ve picked out what my next car will be, once Percy finally dies. I love small hatchbacks, so it looks like I’ll go with a Chevy Aveo.

  

woodbox update

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

I’ve added a handful of new music to woodbox, just in case you check there for music.

If you’re like your music backed up there, just let me know. It’s a touch tricky.

  

With graduation looming

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

PhD comic #592 is worth a look. “unnatural” indeed. :)