Jon Simpson’s Weblog

Amongst other things, the s-video port got lost from the new MacBook. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as the replacement is an adapter to go from DVI to s-video. If you happen to have a Powerbook around, you may wish to plug in both the s-video and DVI out simultaneously and observe the results. [...]

Ok, so tonight’s CSCS was focused around the unix userland & tools, and how to administrate a Linux/Unix box. Lack of networking hampered things slightly, but there was definitely some useful stuff demonstrated (and its the kind of thing that’s really useful when it’s exactly what you’re looking for). I’m posting a rough crib sheet [...]

So it seems Microsoft have discontinued Windows Media Player for mac to reduce the size of their mac business unit, and are going to focus more on going forward with business applications. (source). So what replaces it?

So today had lots of interesting announcements on the Apple front at Macworld SF and a few other cool tidbits. Mac OS X 10.4.4, a Google Earth beta for Mac OS X and the new hardware announcements. Interesting to see the new MacBook Pro announced. It’s not perhaps as big a leap in terms of [...]

For my own personal, later reference.
Check input, stop if f(a) * f(b) > 0

while (result not accurate enough)
c = (a + b) / 2
if (f(a) * f(c) > 0)
a = c
else
b = c
end if
end while

With an error band of |a - b| / 2