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2005-11-27

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Eberhard Lutz: Dysfunctional Design

At the end of his essay, Eberhard mentions an extremely interesting piece of software: Sanos. It's a minimalist (single-task, single-address-space) operating system targeted at running the Windows version of Sun's Hotspot JVM - unchanged. To that end, it replicates all of the [create Win32] API that's required for that task, and stays amazingly lean otherwise.

2005-11-27-dysign

London Web Frameworks Night Writeup: Catalyst, Django, Rails.

And indeed, the BBC's programme catalogue sounds amazing: 'There are "On This Day" schedules that go back to 1933. It's got full contributor histories, and Really Good Search. I can't begin to describe the depth of this dataset - it had an entry for the one time in the 1990s when my dad was on local TV news as a spokesman for Oxfordshire County Council.'

2005-11-27-lonweb

"I didn't see large numbers of people walking around talking to themselves, but [I] did see a shift from using a phone to being a phone."

2005-11-27-bephone

Ron Garret: "[...] I looked pretty good on paper. "

"I was reading a usenet newsgroup [...]"

2005-11-27-oosenet