In TWiT Leo and friends mentioned the two videos made by a Best Buy (ex-)employee, describing which wrong arguments people use to chose an iPhone over an HTC:
And then of course, there are also the equally wrong arguments to chose an HTC over an iPhone:
P.S. Wonder how these movies are made? Check out Xtranormal!
I just got my invite to join in the alpha preview of Digg version 4.
The new Digg is a huge improvement over the old version, in that you can now concentrate on what your friends digg, instead of what everybody in the world diggs. This is reflected in the new home page, which focuses much more on the social aspect of Digg.
The center of the page is taken up by the stories being dugg by your friends. The right side bar is showing the top stories as dugg by your friends. And your friends can also be people you have interest in or whose opinion you respect (think of for example the old Screen Savers cast – Leo LaPorte, Patrick Norton, Martin Sargent, and oh yes, Kevin Rose…).
It looks great, and hopefully I’m not breaking any non-disclosure agreements by posting about it. If you want to sign up for the new Digg, head over to new.digg.com and put your name on the list.
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I ran into an interesting problem last week with some Virtual Machines. I’ve set up 3 different machines, each running Windows XP with a different version of Progress (10.0, 10.1, and 10.2), to test how our application works under the various Progress versions and to develop with some of the latest tools (I love the Eclipse interface! 
). However, for some reason last week all the virtual machines, plus the virgin Windows XP install, decided to show me the following error message:
Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found.
Since I was rolling out a change to a web service running under 10.1 at the time, I was not a happy camper. It took me the better part of a day to try and come up with a solution. Unfortunately, none surfaced, even after some helpful hints from our systems engineer (“Did you reboot?” – “Yes.” – “Must be a Windows patch.” – “I have had no new patches in the last week and half.” etc.). The weekend came and went, and today I was back at the same problem. Ruling out anything general (like the domain controller actually being down – we could log in to everything except the VMs), I started scouring the Internets. And lo and behold, back in 2006 someone else had the same problem. With a regular XP machine. In a Windows domain. Wow!
In a nutshell, it comes down to the fact that the domain controller is confused about your machine and SID, and won’t trust you. Removing the machine from the domain, and adding it back in, solves the problem somehow.
Thank you, My Digital Life!
The other day I was talking to a co-worker (non-programmer), and she mentioned that she just finds it unbelievable how programmers write their programs. I likened programs to recipes, and referred to Short Circuit, where Johnny 5 burns a frozen meal because the instructions didn’t specify that the meal should be taken out of the box…
While recipes are a good analogy, for people who like the analogy a bit more specific to programming (and still have fun), here are some good resources:
Learning to program should be fun, and I hope these resources help you out.
I came across this YouTube video on Geek Culture, and couldn’t resist reposting it… Enjoy while you can (i.e. before it’s taken down)!
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