Jan
28
28
Episode #0
This is the zeroth episode of Pointless Rants (of course it’s zero-indexed, it’s a technology podcast).
In this episode of Pointless Rants we did the following:
- Introduced ourselves – where we’re from, who we are.
- Tom talked about Linux distributions coordinating their distribution schedules so that people will take Linux more seriously.
- Tom introduced us to the amazing, searchable repository of http://koders.com
- Trevor confessed about how he cheats at Facebook games using GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)
- Steve droned on about functional programming languages and got distracted by chat messages. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) (http://www.lisp.org)
- We all discussed our different philosophies on laptop selection.
- Trevor introduced us to some of the new features of Windows 7 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/)
- Tom informed us that it usually isn’t a good idea to pretend to be 10 years old.
- Tom and Steve griped about the many shortcomings of Hotmail (http://v3.izymail.com/Default.aspx)
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I found that Linus Torvalds bug report that Tom mentioned: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858
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