I’ve been a bit quiet lately, but that’s here only. I’m spending most of my writing energy on a new blog over here that allows me to relieve myself of a lot of the frustrations I have about the rotten state of medical software. I’m one of the site’s “official bloggers”, whatever that means. If [...]

I’ve been using Windows since the ’80s. Programming for it, too. That’s been my main “thing” in IT all these years and still is, to some degree. But then, almost two years ago, I got myself a Mac, an iBook, and it’s been downhill ever since. Everything about Windows XP irritates me now. Let’s go [...]

This must be one of the most schizoid desktops I’ve ever seen. Here I’m running Parallels’ most recent release of their virtual machine, build 3186, in “coherence mode”. If you look real close, or click on the image for the full size version (so you don’t destroy your eyes in the process), you’ll find the [...]

I attended an Apple Tech talk about Leopard yesterday in Stockholm. It was interesting as such, but the most interesting thing was the lack of chairs. The first time I went to a tech talk was about a year ago and the room was half full. I then asked a couple of the people who [...]

I was looking up books on bokus.com, searching for books on AppleScript. One of them is “AppleScript Studio”, so I clicked on that one. At the bottom of the page, I get (in Swedish) “Other people that bought books from your click-list, also bought:”, followed by only two book recommendations:
“Everything you need to know about [...]

The processors, Moore’s law and all that
So far, the increase in computing power has come from faster processors with increasingly complex instruction sets and longer pipelines. Some extra increase, mainly in servers, has been accomplished using multiprocessing. Fine, except the increases both in pipelines and processor speed were running into a power/heat problem. As the [...]

Everybody’s on about the security problems caused by public WiFi hotspots, like in airports, Starbucks and so on. The problem is that it is too easy for other people in your immediate vicinity to eavesdrop on your communications or even to set up fake hotspots and make you connect to those instead of the bona [...]

Since getting myself a Mac (two, by now), I’m becoming positively allergic to the incredible stupidities one encounters in Windows programs. Most of these are the result of the combined stupidity of the application programmer and the Windows designers. Now, for today’s example…

Feel with me and the other Delphi developers out there, as we mourn:
Borland Ditches Delphi, V. Stob

Let me present a solution for the Digital Rights Management problem that both the music and movie industries could support and that gives consumers great advantages at the same time. All it needs is the implantation of a crypto chip on the auditory nerve very soon after birth; a minor inconvenience compared to the advantages [...]