Archive for February, 2006

The annual desktop OS problem

Friday, February 10th, 2006

OK, so as a kernel programmer and all that, it is getting increasing difficult to avoid running Linux as the one-and-only host operating system. This is because any good programmer instinctively understands the threat of close-source operating systems, and patent litigation, to his livelihood: it is getting harder and harder to write code without getting […]

The USB, PS/2, and KVM problem, and some solutions

Monday, February 6th, 2006

I noticed that recent keyboards and mice seem to be moving towards a native USB interface, with USB-to-PS/2 adaptors included.  However, after trying out some of the latest keyboards and mice, combined with the latest KVM switches from Avocent and Belkin, I also noticed that this combination often fails.   Believe me, I’ve tried pretty many keyboard, mouse […]

The knowledge base problem

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Everyone–but especially a writer–needs some form of a personal knowledge base.  Blogs do an exquisite job of providing a searchable, organized, highly available collection of such knowledge. 
However, for very quick notes, something even more lightweight is required.  And that’s where EverNote comes in. The fact that their system

runs locally (as opposed to being available on the […]