Although one of the early Flex beta installers for Linux also worked on Mac OS X, this is no longer true for the 1.0 release version. However, this doesn’t mean it can’t be installed. All you need to do is extract the WAR files from the installer: unzip -d flex flex-10-lin.bin (extracting the contents of […]

Just in time for the publication of The Confusion, I finally finished Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver. It’s probably taken me longer to read it than Stephenson took to write it, even in long hand (Colophon: “The manuscript of The Baroque Cycle was written by hand on 100% cotton paper using three different fountain pens: a Waterman […]