One of the nice things about Linux (after you start getting comfortable with the command line) is the fact that it makes you feel more in control of what’s happening on your system. In addition to being able to find out what’s going on, you can also do something about it (again, if you […]

This summer I used Ubuntu Linux as a development environment for my coding escapades. I’ve long had a subliminal fear of the command line. I don’t trust things that I don’t understand. However, once I was finally thrown into the operating system out of necessity, I discovered that I actually like it quite a […]

Lately on my Gentoo Linux laptop I’ve been using one of the newer screensavers in the XScreenSaver collection, Pacman. Edwin de Jong hacked together an impressive visual display that feels like the classic Pac-Man arcade machine we all know and love.

Thanks, Edwin! But no thanks for the crummy AI! Come on Edwin! Let’s see […]

When we’re not busy writing tasty blog posts, the five of us betaboys are students at Olin College. Today Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing held a seminar entitled “0wned — How Hollywood plans on making the future subservient to the past”. Apart from being probably the first seminar in the Olin Seminar Series to start […]

So you’ve been using Script.aculo.us for your Javascript effects, have you?
Maybe it’s because it came preinstalled with that new Rails app you’re working on. Maybe it’s because you think you need crazy effects like “shake” and “fold”. Maybe it’s because you are also using their nice drag-and-drop or controls libraries. Or maybe you just […]