Even more on Creative Labs’ recent mistake. Read on for details…
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Creative Labs’ Forums Filling With “Dear John” Messages
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
As you may have read in this article, Creative Labs have asked a programmer who goes by the handle “Daniel_K” on their forums to remove a thread in which he posted his own software that make features on their older Sound Blaster Audigy cards available under Windows Vista (they work under earlier versions of Windows, [...]
Roadside Signage Fonts
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
If you’re working on an app like the Church Sign Generator or Photoshopping your own roadside signs, you might want to take a look at these fonts, “Signage Standard” and “Signage Modern”, which are designed to look like the black letters on clear plastic that you see on roadside signs all across North America.
Creative Labs: Where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
When driver incompatibilities with Windows Vista caused Creative Labs’ Audigy series of sound cards to lose some of their functionality, one “Daniel_K” stepped up and wrote some workaround software that restored those missing features. You’d think that this act — essentially crowdsourcing at its best — would be applauded by the fine folks at Creative. You be wrong.
Read on for more about how Creative did not let a good deed go unpunished.
Zed Shaw Can’t Get a Break
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Those of you who remember his rant from the start of the year, Rails is a Ghetto know that’s he’s had some bad experiences with startups. Although that rant might have led you to believe that he was unemployed, Obie Fernandez explained in a blog post (which reads like the half-hearted explanation made by someone [...]
Some Quick Ruby News
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Tim Bray has a whole pile of news links about Ruby, including a mention of Sun’s new Ruby Developer Center.
Tucows Job Fair This Saturday!
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
My old workplace, Tucows, is holding a job fair this Saturday, March 29th. They’re looking for tech support and customer service representatives — if you’re interested, read on…
Rick Astley on Rickrolling
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
It was bound to happen: someone managed to interview Rick Astley and ask him what he thinks of Rickrolling.
b5media is Looking for a New Director of Technology
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
At b5media, we’re saying farewell to Aaron Brazell, our Director of Technology — he’s leaving to pursue other projects. We’d like to thank him for everything he’s done, which is quite a bit: he joined when b5 was still a startup running literally out of a garage and shepherded its growth to a blog network of over 300 blogs with a total of 10 million unique pageviews a month.
The question is put: who will our next Director of Technology be? It could be you. Read on to find out…
MySQL’s –i-am-a-dummy Option
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I never knew that MySQL’s –safe-updates option (which prevents a number of data-destroying mistakes) has a synonym called –i-am-a-dummy.
[Found via Reddit.]