Archive for August, 2005

Oh my god, you killed Perl! You bastards!

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Sorry, couldn’t resist the title. I’ve finally gotten around over the last couple of days to taking a close look at [Perl6](http://dev.perl.org/perl6/). I’m scared. I’ve been excited about the idea of Perl6 since the first rumblings started. A compiler that will compile to bytecode and accept a backed to create native executables? What’s not to […]

Big News for OpenBSD

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Theo de Raadt publically announced yesterday that the 3.8 release will make possibly the biggest change in the changelog to date: they’re recongfiguring malloc(3):
> This release will bring a lot of new ideas from us. One of them in particular is somewhat risky. I think it is time to talk about that one, […]

Plus c’est la même chose

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Two months ago, when I last updated this space, I expected to be back in a day or so. Little did I know. Somehow, posting for [The Digital Photography Weblog](http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com) and [The Unofficial Apple Weblog](http://www.tuaw.com) Has taken a great deal more time and energy than I could have guessed. Prolonged computer troubles didn’t help much […]