I was just trolling around on the Gentoo fora, and found a thread with this amazing link on it: STRONG LANGUAGE and CONTENT — NOT for anyone under 18: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Gentoo If you’re not a huge nerd like me, that content might not be funny at all. However, if you’re into computers and programming, you will …
Tag: Linux
Feb 26 2008
Alternatives to AIR?
No, no, no, this isn’t going to be an article about some crazy new breathing apparatus. Rather, it regards some new technology related to the web-desktop interface that I discussed briefly in my article yesterday. I stumbled upon this new program known as Adobe AIR. Today, however, while perusing the Gentoo mailing lists, I found …
Feb 25 2008
I’m gasping for AIR
Recently, Adobe Systems released a new, and very innovative piece of free software called AIR. As far as I can tell, this program seems to be a synthesis of the concepts driving Java and already-existing web technologies like Flash and Shockwave. As I just found out about AIR, I haven’t really had enough time to …