Tag Archives: Computers

In the middle of last week a few meebo employees made an afternoon run to the local Fry’s to buy about 10 USB web cams. Why? Because we added voice and video chatting to meebo (with the help of a … Continue reading →

FileZilla (for Windows and Linux). This is the best FTP/SFTP program I’ve ever used. It reminds me a lot of CuteFTP from when I used it in the late 90s. PuTTY (for Windows). A fantastic Telnet and SSH client for … Continue reading →

For the record, I am strongly in favor of schools teaching C in introductory programming courses rather than Java. I think c teaches the basics way better. Generally if you know c you should be able to pick up Java, … Continue reading →

Soooo, computer programs occasionally set timers when they need to do stuff. For example, “call this function every 30 seconds to check if I have new email.” Now, the CPU inside your computer isn’t constantly processing shit and crunching numbers. … Continue reading →

I updated The Songs of Summer with this summer’s song. It is Parenthesis by The Blow. That album is great. I’ve started biking to work again. It’s 2.4 miles, which is perfect. Not enough time to sweat and long enough … Continue reading →

Last night at work we finally released our next big product. It’s called meebo rooms. It’s basically just a bunch of chat rooms. What’s good about it? Completely web-based, no need to download anything Can be used anonymously, no need … Continue reading →

Call me crotchety, but I feel like C is the only language that should be used for software that could ever be required to be scalable. So like, servers and stuff. I guess I’m ok with C++, too. I just … Continue reading →

The Beryl window manager (geeky Unix computer stuff) is freaking incredible. It’s one of those new-fangled 3d window managers. You know how OS-X has the fancy expose stuff and all that jazz? It’s sort of like that, but for Linux. … Continue reading →

I ripped 12 CDs yesterday. I encoded them in the FLAC format instead of mp3. It’s a lossless audio compression format, so the files are a bit bigger than mp3s. The average comes out to about 330MB per album. With … Continue reading →