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MacBook Air SuperDrive for all
Bought, paid for, and on its way. I like buying something that gets entered into Quicken as "CD-IDE->USB PCB."
Speaking of simple shit I can't believe I didn't know about until now: I learned the other day what the var keyword is for in Javascript. I'd always known it was there, but I didn't know what it did. Everything seemed to work okay without it, so I figured it was just syntactic sugar and ignored it.
That is, until I tried to do recursion in a closure. No wonder the value of that variable kept changing! Heh.
OhmygodIhadnoideayoucoulddothisanditiseverythingIhavealwayswanted!
Ultra Premium Denon Link Cable
Denon's 1.5 meter (59 in.) ultra premium Denon Link cable was designed for the audio enthusiast. Made from high purity copper wire and high performance connection parts, the AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction....
Because the DAC can produce such better sound from ultra-pure quality digital signals than those UTP-tainted digital signals everybody else gets for 10ยข/ft. No, really, it's worth the five hundred dollars! Or, you know, it could be the ignorance tax in full effect. Whatever.
Update: Apparently Illiad found this funny, too.
Update: ...all week long.
Wow.
This guy is... whoa.
0-60 in half a second, full throttle the whole time, and stops on a dime. Watching him lecture is like watching a Japanese kid play video games.
The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers
These people (who are we kidding?) this guy cannot be serious. If he were serious, this would be a horrible idea for a language, with a poorly-built compiler, that costs a hundred dollars.
Unless, of course, you know how to read JavaScript.
Seriously. The site attempts to require a credit card before you can download the compiler, but the entire site is done in JavaScript, including the part that redirects the browser to the unrestricted URL where you can download it. Honest!
At first I thought the order form was a joke. I figured the language was amusing and Free, and the download link would just work. Except it didn't. At least, not unless you filled out the order form with your credit card information. Hm.
Then I thought the whole thing must be a joke, and there was no such compiler, except the form actually functioned and made AJAX requests and had error checking for empty fields and denied fake (well, it denied what I gave it, which was obviously fake; I didn't feel like betting a hundred bucks that it would reject valid numbers, too) credit card information. Seems like an awful lot of work for a pretty lame joke.
Not until I looked at the JavaScript (to see how far this shitty joke went) and saw that it does exist was I truly baffled. It appears to make a serious (albeit pathetic) attempt to prevent downloading the compiler unless you provide money.
But it's just so... stupid. I mean....
"If it weren't for my horse...."
On a lark, I was thinking about swap partitions. Specifically, I was wondering how FreeBSD used multiple swap partitions on different disks (or the same disk, for that matter—I've never tried putting multiple swap partitions on the same physical disk—I'm not even sure if you can). FreeBSD handbook to the rescue again:
So it appears that it kind of treats the swap partitions like a striped RAID array, but that brings up a serious question: If it worked like a striped array, it would be subject to the same rules as RAID arrays, it would be something like "the internal data structures would scale to the number of partitions times the smallest partition size." But it doesn't. It says "4 times the largest swap partition." So that means the data structures knowingly can swell beyond available storage. I'm sure there's a good reason for it, and I'd like someone to tell me what it is and how it's done....it is recommend that a swap is configured on each drive (up to four drives). The swap partitions should be approximately the same size. The kernel can handle arbitrary sizes but internal data structures scale to 4 times the largest swap partition. Keeping the swap partitions near the same size will allow the kernel to optimally stripe swap space across disks.
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