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Oracle is, of course, appealing it’s loss on the recent Java copyright cases. Oracle, MS, NetApp, and EMC are all running scared that they won’t be able to copyright their APIs anymore. And they should be. An API is the visible portion of the application to a developer. API is like the letters and words [...]

So as some in my “social circle” already know I finally started cheating on Android and got a JesusPhone 5.  Here’s some first impressions, granted, I am being rather critical here, I am actually so far quite happy with the iPhone 5…though if you’re an iPhone 4S or 4 user it might not be worth [...]

No I haven’t forgotten about my blog, there just hasn’t been anything all that interesting to talk about. I’ve got the usual slew of work projects and a couple of personal projects I’m working on. Last few weeks I’ve been dawdling in Minecraft in my spare time. Just haven’t had time to make a decent [...]

One of my friends blogs that I host was recently infected by one of the drive by infections called “Blackhole” which is completely useless description to disinfect it.  Even more disappointingly, NO AV scanner was helpful in figuring out which page had hit it.  Google’s malware tools/safebrowsing don’t see it because it very specifically hides [...]

Yup I know it’s been a while. I’ve been busy with Work Stuff ™. We’ve lost Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, and Robert Galvin all just recently. These men have either directly changed your entire life, or indirectly. Ritchie is the R of K&R C, better known simply as ‘C’ — the computer language that pretty [...]

Most of you probably don’t know, but I’m a horse lover at heart.  I “blame” my mother.  Just discovered a Kickstarter project for “Wild Horses & Renegates, Saving America’s Wild Horses” – I’ve added the Kickstarter widget for this project to the page even though it doesn’t fit the layout or anything because it’s something I [...]

Shhhhhh…be vewwy vewwy quiet, I’m hunting SHA-256 hashes! Performance Summary ******************* Worst slack in design: 0.089 Requested Estimated Requested Estimated Clock Clock Starting Clock Frequency Frequency Period Period Slack Type Group ———————————————————————————————————————————— main_pll|CLKOP_inferred_clock 130.0 MHz 131.5 MHz 7.692 7.603 0.089 inferred Inferred_clkgroup_0 System 130.0 MHz 719.4 MHz 7.692 1.390 6.302 system system_clkgroup ====================================================================================================================================

I’ll quote from the official transcripts of the constitution found at www.archives.gov … you can skip over them if you like…  I have included the whole thing below the fold…   “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;” OK so it says the [...]

There’s been a LOT of morons out there spouting total crap about bitcoin.  First, as of right now NO SENATOR OR CONGRESSPERSON HAS MENTIONED TAKING DOWN BITCOIN!!!!!!  Quite frankly, with the distributed nature, it’d be impossible barring finding algorithm weaknesses and exploiting them.  Second THEY ARE TARGETING SILK ROAD.  Thats who they’re after right now. [...]

Yup, I’m officially a gadget whore.  I bought a Verizon Motorola Xoom for delivery on launch day a while back.  I’ve been busy moving and working so this is the first chance I’ve had to write anything up on it. iFixit has a great teardown of the Motorola Xoom. I’m going to talk some about [...]