My favorite web comics
There are some pretty famous web comics I read, like Dilbert or User Friendly. But there are some other pretty funny strips. Today I want to present two of them.
xkcd
This comic is updated three times a week. The author is a physicist who is working for the NASA. The strips are about programmer’s strange behaviors and paranoias, relationships, math and science.
John and John
This comic is created by a crazy dutch named d!o. Usually he releases one or two strips per week. The humor is not for decent people. Mainly it is about sex and pron.
My new PowerBook
I know that it is called MacBook Pro, but after 3 years of using a PowerBook it is hard to change. Optically there are not much chances. The small FrontRow reveiver and some other plugs, two hooks to lock the display and the buildin iSight camera. A major design difference is the size and the weight. It is even lower than my old PowerBook and it weights less. But the dimesions are a little bit greater and this causes that it does not fit in my old neoprene sleeve.
The main reason for buying it was that I now can develop 3d stuff while I am outside. I always hated the ATI card in the PowerBook. My new system has a Geforce 8600M GT with 256MB. Not as powefull as the GTX in my workstation, but for me the feature set is more important.
I never had the feeling my old notebook is too slow, but the new machine is way faster: the boot process, the workflow, the searching and exspecially the compiling, everything. I liked the power pc architecture but also like Intel processors.
The camera has an awesome quality and scroll with two fingers is so nice. Well, I had iScroll2 installed, but it is so soft and you have to keep more distance between your fingers. FrontRow is wonderful when I lay on my bed and can control music. The most diffucult decision was: glossy or normal display. Well glossy displays have pretty nice colors, but when the sun shines on the screen it is like a mirror. I usally use my notebook in the university, in a train or even outside, so I chosse the normal display and I am totally happy. It is bright and colorful.
I will write a seperate article about leopard and its new features and problems. And for all the guys that was waiting for: I also continue Quake 2 dev soon.