Software patents are something of a sore spot for me, both as a software developer and as a generally intelligent human being. I read an opinion article on Ars Technica several days ago on the subject, and they pointed out why the software patent system is fundamentally broken: Nathan Myhrvold, the Microsoft veteran who founded the… Read More »
One year ago, I posted on Slashdot that I do not run an anti-virus program on my computer. That spawned a very large set of comments, most of which were telling me how stupid I am for not running anti-virus. I promised one user that one year from that day, I would post the results… Read More »
Dear SCEA, Common sense tells us that when I purchase a product that advertises a feature, then I should be able to use that product with that feature. If I buy a deck of pinochle cards, I should obviously be able to play pinochle with those cards. If the manufacturer later decides that it only… Read More »
After part 2 of my Mac OSX VM tutorial, I said I’d post an update for how to increase the screen resolution. It’s pretty simple; there are two files to edit, and if you want a resolution higher than 1280×1024, a virtualbox command to run on the host machine. I’ll do two examples, then; one… Read More »
Yesterday we set up the VirtualBox VM so it would be ready to install OSX on our Windows host. Today we’ll do the fun part 🙂