Coding Passion

ThePirateBay sells out?

Christian Decker — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:14:03 +0000

Just read an alternative way of seeing the deal between Global Gaming Factory and ThePirateBay (the worldwide largest BitTorrent tracker). While everybody is criticizing the deal, J.J. King of TorrentFreak puts it into a more positive light: Big != Good Let’s face it: The Pirate Bay itself had become a huge focus of attention for those [...]

Windows Stickers!

Christian Decker — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:42:31 +0000

Do you have a notebook? Then probably you’ll have one of those incredibly annoying Windows stickers on it, even if you never had Windows running on it. Far from being useful they are pretty annoying, first they lose all their colors, which then stick to your screen, instead of the shiny surface they are supposed to. [...]

Megavideo still not working

Christian Decker — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:16:37 +0000

Apparently I’m not the only one complaining about MegaVideo. I’m starting to get huge amounts of traffic from search engines, suggesting that others are experiencing those issues too. I’m pretty disappointed in their deceiving marketing strategies, promising high rewards, but then not tracking them (wether intentionally or not).

Firefox 3.5b4 twice as fast as 3.0.6

Christian Decker — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:45:22 +0000

I just had a test run of the Sun Spider benchmark with my “old” Firefox 3.0.6 against Firefox (well more likely Swiftfox) 3.5b4 and the results are stunning: ============================================================================= ** TOTAL **: *2.04x as slow* 1886.4ms +/- 7.3% 3854.4ms +/- 4.9% [...]

Are macs more insecure than Windows / GNU/Linux?

Christian Decker — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:34:25 +0000

While I am not a big Mac OS fan, I think unbiased analysis of its advantages and downsides is fundamental, to build a personal opinion. This article is a little biased against Mac OS, but I think it got the main point right: I have developed this analogy of someone who wants to buy a nuclear [...]