User: kbob

Re:Evolution and Good Usability

On: Interrogate New Media Professor Clay Shirky

Um, er... So you're saying that web pages that play over a stereo or a mobile phone are well-designed pages, and pages that won't are badly designed?

I am delighted that evolution will never arrive at that particular fitness criterion.

Terribly Inefficient

On: Microsoft Announces .net

Isn't this terribly inefficient? The only personal document Microsoft really wants control of is your savings account -- storing all these other documents is just a waste of disk space. What are they thinking?

K<bob>

PDP

On: 50" Flat Screens from Pioneer

So, does PDP still stand for Pink & Dark Pink?

K<bob>

XFS on the desktop

On: Reiserfs Released

Cato wrote:

XFS looks more appropriate for large databases with huge disk sizes and file sizes (and stringent time-to-recover requirements), as well as for huge multimedia files (which SGI of course is traditionally focused on).

Disclaimer: I work for SGI. SGI created XFS.

I've been running XFS on my IRIX desktop since 1995. There is one fairly good reason to use XFS on the desktop, which I haven't seen mentioned: you never ever have to fsck.

K&lt;bob&gt;

The Linux Store runs IIS?

On: Mega Linux Boxes, and Cheap Ones Too

They can't spell "googol", either.
(Menu entry is labeled "google search".

K

Palm V's Advantage

On: New Palm V and IIIx arrived in the stores!

Several people have asked why the Palm V is interesting.
I want one, and I want it for one reason: it'll actually fit
in my shirt pocket. I probably won't use it for anything
that my old PPP ro won't do, but it'll actually fit in my
shirt pocket.

(Hey, I just lost my /. virginity. First post, of a sort.)

K<bob>