GTalk’s Critical Flaw

Filed under: Links — tylerl [ August 29, 2005 @ 1:39 pm ]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nugget/97081.html

A good communicator is one who can get you up in arms about an issue you previously didn’t know existed. This article does exactly that. An absolute pleasure to read.

The Bridge-Color Problem

Filed under: Links, Techie — tylerl [ @ 1:32 pm ]

http://www.flounder.com/bridge.htm

Here’s an interesting essay describing a particular type of problem we often run into when maintaing other people’s work. There are certain decisions about a project which must be made, but which are not directly related to the technology or design of the underlying archetecture.

While this fact is entirely unremarkable, what is interesting are then various artifacts introduced by the mantenance of these decisions. The gist of the essay (though unstated) is that it’s import to understand the reasoning behind these “bridge color” decisions if the project is going to be properly maintained.

Cheap antennas

Filed under: Links, Techie — tylerl [ August 5, 2005 @ 10:04 pm ]

http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz

How to make high-gain antennas out of cheap cookware. These examples exhibit much better results than some of the more complicated models that were popular in the past.

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