Standards Schmandards

Posted by cpbotha on May 18th, 2003 in · 1 Comment

According to the new VESA CVT (Coordinated Video Timing) system for describing display pixel formats, the display on my laptop has magically turned into a 1.47M3. SXGA+ is now officially passé.

ZomboCom

Posted by cpbotha on May 16th, 2003 in · 3 Comments

Today Paul discovered ZomboCom. You can do anything at ZomboCom. ZomboCom is strangely comforting. Why can’t I stop staring at ZomboCom?

The Microsoft and I

Posted by cpbotha on May 13th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

I’m reading some more juicy bits from the Microsoft Windows Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers…

The American Propaganda Machine

Posted by cpbotha on May 5th, 2003 in · 192 Comments

Most of us outside the borders of the USA know this, but nothing we do or say will probably have any kind of effect on the status quo: The American government is supported by an extremely efficient propaganda machine that ensures that the majority of its citizens will support it in its most barbaric of ventures…

Where should that dang button go?

Posted by cpbotha on May 4th, 2003 in · 331 Comments

So, here we have the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (i.e…

Het boek, de pen.

Posted by cpbotha on May 3rd, 2003 in · 0 Comments

Jeroen sent me links to two interesting web pages dealing with the important question of the relationship between the gender and article of Dutch nouns. Enlighten yourself by going here and here…

Cygwin CVS EOL problem solution

Posted by cpbotha on May 2nd, 2003 in · 0 Comments

At this very moment, you might be wondering why, if CVS is such a wonderful piece of version control software that even offers to soothe your cross-platform end of line woes (*ix: eol = lf, macos: eol = cr, windows: eol = crlf), it’s suddenly breaking the end of line checkouts on the *ix side since you’ve been committing your ports on the windows side with CVS from Cygwin…