Archive for September, 2008

Poor State of Linux Fonts

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Working on site with a client reminded me of how poor font rendering is on Linux, and what little progress has been made since I stopped using Linux on the desktop almost two years ago. While trying to work on a document with a couple of Linux users I have noticed how poor hinting and [...]

Haven’t found this in high quality elsewhere…

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

This was featured on major news sites some time back and linked to YouTube - unfortunately the YouTube version has mono sound. I had a hard time finding a combination of relatively high quality video and stereo sound for this. Best I could get was the video from YouTube and the stereo track from DailyMotion [...]

iPhone Screenshot Security Flaw

Monday, September 15th, 2008

It has been a while since a sensationalistic piece on Apple and security has made the news rounds. The latest “security flaw” is that the iPhone takes a temporary screenshot of every window to generate shrinking effect of a window when the home button is pressed. A “forensics expert” has managed to recover said screenshots [...]

NYCBSDCon Registration

Saturday, September 6th, 2008