Tuesday, September 21, 2010

FreeMind

.. from http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page now has interesting extensions:

Friday, September 17, 2010

Netflix error in Safari: errorcode 2105

Netflix player stopped working from one day to the next with "ErrorCode 2105".
There was a link to nonsense about checking for fonts.

What helped:
  1. Close Safari
  2. Delete the file /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
  3. Start Safari, access Netflix, try to play movie, install the now missing Silverlight again
  4. Safari's Help/Installed Plugins shows Silverlight Plug-In version 4.0.50826.0

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Top 10 Computer Languages

According to http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html, it's
  • Java on top - Couldn't agree more
  • C before C++ - I'd still prefer C++ over C if used 'carefully', whatever that means
  • C# gains, but is behind
  • PHP, python above Perl - Hmm. For quick hacks, I do like perl
Systems that sound interesting, but looking at them I get a "well, maybe not":
  • go, Limbo: Inspired by Plan 9, built-in communication channels
  • Erlang
No longer seem to matter:
  • Prolog way down on list
  • Smalltalk off top-50