Monthly Archives: June 2005

Got a Linksys WRT54G wireless router installed at home. This thing is running on embbeded Linux. I will have to play with some alternative Linux firmware images. So far I’m really happy with its performance. Getting 54Mbit reception in every … Continue reading →

Fedora Core 4 is the latest version of the free and popular Fedora Core platform with a number of unique features and significant improvements over previous versions. Read the rest of the release notes. Torrents are also available

While playing with the Ajax support in Rails I detected a huge memory leak problem. Apparantly this is a known issue. Fixing it turned out to be quite interesting. The Ubuntu ruby-fcgi packages are still at 0.8.5 so first things … Continue reading →

Excellent talk and demo from Will Wright, creator of The Sims, etc. on the upcoming Maxis game “Spore”. Amazing stuff, check it out. He also talks about procedural methods and their demo scene origins. Can’t wait to get my hands … Continue reading →

The NVIDIA folks did it again, 1.0-7664. This release includes EXT_framebuffer_object support which bodes well for the upcoming XGL stuff. Go nVidia! Kudo’s to zander. Another interesting tidbit is that they also released this version for Solaris x86. Nice to … Continue reading →

Okay, so I went and bought the combo pack. Figured it’ll at least keep me busy while recovering from a nasty flu. So far I like it! The appendix on Ruby alone is going to be great as a quick … Continue reading →