Archive for the 'Random Thoughts' Category
Where Have We Been?
Well it has been a long time without an update. Have we ran out of things to write about? Not in the least. Last month was rather busy. I played more video games than I have in the longest time. Halo 3 came out and then there was Portal (Orange Box). I also moved and decided to switch hosting companies. My thoughts were very positive until a few minutes ago when I finally decided to do some work and got a CPU quota warning. Now the whole reason I left Dreamhost was because of the sometimes ridiculous load averages. Overall it was sluggish for a large amount of time. I didn’t mind all the time but I wanted to find something better.
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What is Open Source?
A few days ago I had this crazy idea that open source was like the “science” of the software world. It could be openly analyzed for bugs and defects. Anyone could update it or change it for the better (hopefully) provided you took the time to understand the code. Many more people will eventually be analyzing your code for defects and improving it. Arguably Windows is the “bible,” it is set in stone and must maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions. You cannot make any feature changes to it and you certainly can’t fix bugs. What you can do is tell them about a problem bug and hopefully they will fix it (which is unlike the bible). Now to avoid a religious debate which I don’t feel like having I am only being general about the topic. The bible is old and static and science on the other hand is a self-correcting process.
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