Tag: Mac OS

• Don’t buy a Kindle to read maths or computer science books

  In the last twenty-four hours I have been forced to completely reassess my view of the Kindle. I have been reading a book (I won’t say what as I want to make the comments below anonymous) on a Kindle (the device, not an application – see below), and was resigned to the usual second class Kindle…

  Adrian McMenamin

  August 15, 2012

  Uncategorized

  Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-book, Kindle, Mac OS

• Dennis Ritchie

  Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and the Unix operating system, has died. If great men stand on the shoulders of giants, then Ritchie was one of the greatest giants of all. Unix (including Mac OSX), Linux and Windows were or are written in C. (In Windows’s case it has now moved…

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 13, 2011

  Uncategorized

  C++, Dennis Ritchie, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Ritchie, Unix

• In your face, fan bois

  There is something very annoying about Apple users: they pay twice as much as the rest of us for stuff and then think that they are the clever and cool ones. How does that work? Well, here’s some bad news for them: their browser is almost certainly broken. If you look at the graphs on…

  Adrian McMenamin

  August 18, 2011

  Uncategorized

  Apple, IPhone, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Operating Systems, Safari, Web browser, WebKit