Interesting reading from Alex Payne, on issues facing Hacker News, but also running a community website in general. A great community isn’t something that you just set up and periodically patch. Running a great community is a full-time job, not a weekend hack project. Indeed — and that applies to some of the community sites [...]
Got this via this Dell Swarm offer for just $23.76 to replaced my old scanner (9 year old HP ScanJet 4200C that refuses to work on Vista/Windows 7). It has got wireless printing and scanning, although I am quite a bit disappointed that it can only scan to your Windows desktop computer running Dell’s proprietary [...]
Via Hacker News: And according to Nokia entry on Wikipedia In 1898, Eduard Polón founded Finnish Rubber Works, manufacturer of galoshes and other rubber products, which later became Nokia’s rubber business. At the beginning of the 20th century, Finnish Rubber Works established its factories near the town of Nokia and began using Nokia as its [...]
Nokia vs SGI on Hacker News Comments. Interesting to see how both have ex-Microsoft boss, and both have decided to replaced in house operating system with Microsoft’s offering. And we all know what happened to SGI. Another interesting post on what Microsoft has done with the management at Nokia. Brilliant.
Debian 6.0 Squeeze released. My server platform of choice for the next year and half (until the next Debian or Ubuntu LTS are released)
Playground is the personal weblog of Scott Yang, a Chinese-Australian Christian who works as a software developer in Sydney Australia.