Blog Archive: February 2025
a used 2g iphone is actually cool
On January 14th, 2009 In Technology
I bought a used iphone 2G model for work. I didn't intend to use
it as an actual phone. But, as time wore on, I started playing with
it, and (mostly) prying it out of the hands of my 10 and 12 year olds
and I've grown to like it.
Oddly, I've yet to activate it. I suppose I will soon, but
the idea of spending $75/month
Ubuntu upgrades. wow!
On January 8th, 2009 In Software
I have a couple of machines running Ubuntu. More and more lately.
One machine at home was running Ubuntu 7.04 and mythtv. I was loath to change it
because it was working and I hate having to type "ssh" when I'm watching tv.
But, I finally did it over the holidays. First I upgraded to 7.10, which was a pain.
7.04 is not longer supported and
pcc (portable c compiler) lives again!
On January 8th, 2009 In Software
Two interesting things happened this week
- the "R" programming language was talked about in the mainstream press.
- I discovered that the openbsd folks are working on using a non-gcc C
compiler (pcc). Turns out in the non-linux unix world there is not so
much love for gcc.
This makes some sense. gcc is huge and hard to