A Blog of Very Little Brain

That’s a Prisoner reference btw.

InformIt has released his usual flurry of articles. Here’s a selected bunch:

Coding Guidelines: Fact and Fiction. I’m just nuts about those things. Every two years there’s a new concept that arises for a year, and then is bashed by everyone the next year, only to be replaced by a new fad in the following one.

How and Why Hackers Want to Get Inside Your Machine. I guess the article is more about the How than the Why…

The Cost of Free Software. Hopefully not the usual banter about free software not being free. Always nice to know people still apply same concepts to different fields, i.e. “something free is worth every penny you paid for”.

Some links I found regarding the GNU/Linux Distro that Be, Ubuntu:
What is it About Ubuntu? from XYZ Computing.
Is Edubuntu truly the operating system for families? From Blogging Baby.
Ubuntu wraps up a super year. Desktop Linux links to previous article plus an interesting survey results.

Found this survey via Kotaku.

“This is NOT a “professional” survey. It is at worst completely unscientific and poorly designed, but at best, worth a good laugh and some reflection.” Hah! and you think we’ll waste our precious time on this? (starts filling survey)
Starts quite nicely, before it hits you as a preverse method of some freak sycho’s attempt to jerk off to the answers of his fellow(?) gamers. A close survey (no pun intended (and even if it was, it wasn’t that hilarious to start with)) of the questions reveal that we are, indeed, dealing with a most disturbed mind. Please observe, your honor, the suggested answers to question number 4 (Why do you love to play video games?): escape from reality; more interesting than normal life (Then again, if your “normal life” revolves around composing under-graduate surveys that you describe as ‘poorly designed’, I can see why you want to escape to games); keeps me sane (no comment); pleasure and enjoyment (told you? pervert); gives me a rush (Yeech. You won’t catch me using his controllers); makes me feel better when i’m pissed off (So does sinking puppies and stealing candy from babies, but you don’t see me running an Internet survey on them, do you?); i love violence (Uh… right. And what’s with the lowercase “i” anyway?); let’s me show off how bad-ass I am (How old is this guy? 10?).
Whew. Moving on.
“Question 6: Name all gay characters you can from video games.” Uh… Mario, Cliff Blezinsky, Voldo, and… What the hell is this?
The rest is just bad. I have no idea who wrote this, but guys? Game bloggers? Next time a depressive kid with questions about his sexuality wants to write a survey, DON’T LINK TO IT!
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Yep, it’s another hefty bunch of linkage galore. On with the show!

Ars Technica with a shocking revelation: A risk management analyser finds that the odds of being a bona fide identity theft victim can run as low as one percent or less. This is worrying. Next they’ll find that Elvis wasn’t kidnapped by aliens and then what?

More Restaurant goodness: How the future used to look like. Basically the same, with men in jumpsuits and women in very small skirts. what I can understand is people who keep complaining about no flying cars. I want to know where are all the women in near invisible garments and a 2-inch wide miniskirts?

I usually won’t post Kotaku links (they are bound to appear in every other gaming blog anyway), but this is too good to be left out: April 2006 to December 2006.