Archive for July, 2009
Linking Javascript
Posted by Seth in Software Development on July 30, 2009
This is an idea that I’ve been kicking around for a while. Back in the C days, when most everything was determined at compile time, life was simple. You wrote your program, you preprocessed it, you compiled it, then you linked it. Linking is the cool part. The linker would determine exactly which bits of […]
Air conditioners, water.
It is surely HOT where I live. Actually, today is on track to be hotter than it’s ever been in Portland. Right now (11:00 AM) it’s 91° F, and it’s forecast to hit 107° F this afternoon. Needless to say I’ve been running my air conditioner non stop for the last few days. This brings […]
Hulu on the Mac
Posted by Seth in Television on July 6, 2009
A quick update to the Hulu experiment: My Pentium 4 2.53GHz system with a GeForce FX 5500 256MB has some serious frame rate problems with Hulu’s streaming flash. Even at a very low resolution (800x600x16), the performance glitches are so distracting that it’s almost impossible to watch.