Archive: 2006-10-05
Ruby heresy
Someone on the ruby-talk mailing list asked why you can't add strings and numbers without conversion as in Perl and PHP. Now, behaving like PHP is rarely a good thing, but Ruby can be made to do it in this case:
Technika DAB radio
If you want a cheap DAB radio, you could do worse than this Technika DAB-106 from Tesco. (Technika appears to be Tesco’s own brand for Far East-sourced electronics.)
A glimpse of daylight
Good news! Microsoft is going to flip the kill switch on versions of the OS that aren’t—or, more importantly don’t appear to be—properly licensed. Given how well WGA doesn’t work, I’m sure that this will lead to a lot of inconvenienced users.
Who’s number one?
