Archive for September, 2008

Chrome vs. IE8

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 25 views

Economist.com are pushing the angle that Chrome is an aggressive move by Google against Microsoft (and Windows Exploder). IE killed Netscape, Microsoft never cared about Mac users anyway (still don't), and if it wasn't for Mozilla Firefox the way would have been clear for Microsoft to own the internet. That ...

Symlinks under windows

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 33 views

I thought Symlinks were a preserve of *nix alone. But I was wrong! They can be done in Windows (well, NTFS, at least), where they're called junctions. Impatient? Jump to the how. What is a symlink/junction? Symbolic links are file system pointers, where one folder points to another, and all paths beneath the ...

Howies

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 10 views

A long while back I discovered what was then Cardigan's third largest clothing company; a pair of crazy entrepreneurs and a mad bunch of skaters and bikers trying to sell t-shirts. Marked by enchanting catalogues, an un-flinching focus on eco-friendly (even if I'm not too sure how sustainable organic jeans ...