Fabrice Bellard –of QEMU fame– has implemented a PC-emulator in JavaScript. So now you can boot Linux in your browser. How geeky is that? Enjoy the show… Here are some technical details.
There is a small C-compiler available. It is ‘tcc’ (also from Bellard). You can use it to compile the sample (hello.c) 
For all Unix-lovers out there: happy 15000th epoch day.
Now I will be the first to post hilarious screenshots of windows oddities… just because I think that windows sucks. Big time, that is. Now I encountered a funny thing on my Mac as well.. I was updating my OS and it started downloading. When almost done it showed a very funny estimated time of arrival: -2147483648 hours. So basically I got my update 244978 years ago… Now isn’t that amazing?
Oh wow. You really have to see this for yourself. Is this a cool app or what? Unfortunately I don’t come across much Spanish still from a technological point of view… this is really cool. Download it for free from the AppStore.
He he he, I don’t really need this but I think it is a nice gadget… the Table Connect for iPhone.
Oh wow, I have a new phone. It’s an android phone. The samsung Galaxy S. I had the phone lying around for a month but now it’s finally activated. Still reachable under the same number though. That’s why I had to wait.
Oh boy what a pleasure to work with. It has swype text input. This allows you to just swipe your finger or in my case my thumb over the keyboard. Single finger and fast text input. Very convenient.
Although I do like apple products and I was definitely considering to go iphone4 I decided to go android. First of all: I already have an ipod touch which is basically an iphone without the ability to make a phone call. So getting the iphone would not really be a new experience. So I go for the both worlds option. iOs and android. Let’s see what will turn out to be the better choice. So far so good: I love the samsung galaxy S.
Oops, if this is true this may be a killing blow to all of you MicroSoft fanboys out there. According to Computer World a tech-worker on the oilrig crashing windows systems may be part of the problem that eventually let to the spilling of oil. And we’re not talking a little Dr.Watson, an occasional “general exception”… we’re talking about a full-blown BSOD (blue screen of death). Well maybe we learn a little lesson here. Never use a computer system for critical mission computing that can’t even keep itself alive for longer than half an hour… If this doesn’t teach us then maybe this will… one day…
Oooh I know, you don’t have to put it in the comments: i’m a tremendous nerd but I couldn’t help myself. Today my (combined) incoming mailbox hit a magical number… check this:
See? 6502 messages… 6502!! The MOS technology 6502 CPU… The CPU of my first actual computer I got way back in 1982 1983. The amazing Oric-1. Oh whow.. that brings back some sweet memories. And ofcourse my bible, the holy book called “Programming the 6502″ by Rodnay Zaks… Oh those were the days.. anyway.. I better start reading some mail now….
In the meanwhile feast your eyes on some 6502 floating point assembly routines written by Steve Wozniak (of Apple fame).
Some call me a hater, others call me a fanboy… well the truth is somewhere in the middle… I hope… Anyway, I love this new Mac ad.
Whahahaa… nice. The EFF (electronic frontier foundation) has filed a request at the DMCA to allow jailbreaking of Apple’s iPhone. Users must be able to install any software they wish.. not just the software apple approves of.
Just this week apple removed any voice-based application from the App Store to protect their exclusive deal with AT&T because it “duplicates features that come with the iPhone”. This just proves the necessity of people having the right to install any software they want.
Soooo Apple had to respond to the DMCA why jailbreaking would be bad…. well.. hold on tight.. according to Apple the iPhone is not just a phone… it’s a weapon of mass-disruption. I call “FUD“
Now this has to be the ultimate mod for a macbook. EdsJunk cracked his MacBook open and added a second monitor to it. So instead of the dull backlit apple logo you can now display anything on it. Here’s a video of the result… oh boy…
Next year we will celebrate the 30th birthday of PacMan. Namco released PacMan in 1980 and is now preparing a new episode to release next year. I really wonder what the new game will be like. I really didn’t like the earlier spawn-offs like Pac-land. It sucked in ways in which something has never sucked before…
Let’s wait and see what they come up with. I hope they prove me wrong when I think that the original idea is still the perfect game. Well to be honest I liked Ms. PacMan better because of the different mazes but the idea is still the same. How about playing a little game of PacMan yourself?
Oh this is, or can be, great news for Seinfeld fans. The complete star cast of the sitcom Seinfeld will reunite on multiple episodes of ‘Curb your enthousiasm‘ which is also written by Larry David and he plays the lead role as well. Individual characters from Seinfeld have appeared on the show before but not the entire group. So hopefully some good scenario’s are prepared to justify the reunion. Can’t wait for these episodes… due in fall. So here you have something to look forward to to overcome the long hot dull summer.
Yes, today is a beautiful day for all unix fans around the world. In Unix we measure time in seconds since 1 januari 1970… and today that will go beyond 1234567890. How nice. The javascript clock below is counting… don’t miss it.
countdown
Download the clock javascript code
For those who missed it: there are some screenshots below
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Some days ago Apple introduced the new MacBookPro, you can read a nice report on engadget. is available from apple. People expected a little more from the new MacBookPro and there’s hope. See the introduction of the revolutionary keyboard-less notebook from Apple: