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> The problem with the X community... Isn't that painting millions of X programmers with the same brush?

Interesting. Do you think the MS-centric tech culture has anything to do with copyright law not being enforced strictly in some countries?

You don't have to mess with the internals, unless you want to put a bomb in someone's laptop. Reboot in single user mode, change password, do whatever you want.

This makes it sound like the GPL and similar licenses are the one true free software licenses out there. As others here pointed it still seems to be OK with BSD, MIT and other OSI …

Programming collective intelligence is my favorite from around 20 oreilly titles I own.

What would be the scope of the book? I saw Zed mention the same title on his blog once. His idea was to provide something for programmers with experience in other languages and som…

Agreed. The UI of Skype 5 for windows is bloated and confusing, but the 5.0 version for mac kept things simple while pimping up the looks and adding some features, so it doesn't re…

Suse has a system configuration utility called YAST which is user friendly for people who are afraid of the command line and also works across a text terminal like ssh. You can con…

Yes it did. The changes in pricing took effect at the moment they got acquired.

>> Maybe someone who has developed a FF extension can lay my worries to rest -- could this have, say, a built in key logger which sends that data to the author? If it could sniff p…

Based on the same async IO fundamentals: Orbited is a complete solution based on Twisted. It handles the most difficult part - crossbrowser portability already - http://orbited.org…

I'm sure all those keyboards do wonders for him. Although people writing stuff like this should take into consideration that a 7Kg (15 lbs) $150+ keyboard that you can only order b…

> an ASP.NET developer is more likely to cross shop something like Java; pick a framework, any framework. In my opinion, an ASP.NET developer is more likely to cross shop with what…

Given that that I installed the RC Desktop this morning and there were massive problems with Compiz not working even with the latest beta driver from Nvidia and Skype crashing even…

Python for most of my web development and network programming (at work) JavaScript for clientside web and Adobe AIR apps (at work) Actionscript 3 for Adobe AIR apps (at work) Schem…

Always?! Even on mobile hardware that will come in 5-10 years?

I stopped reading whole books about specific language or technology 5 years ago. But sometimes do buy them to look into a couple of chapters when needed. These kind of books I usua…

We migrated our old 1GB RAM slicehost VPS to 2 1GB RAM Rackspace servers. The performance/stability remains the same as they are on the same hardware as I understand. So it's all g…

pyjamas?! http://pyjs.org/

If he couldn't care less about his code being pythonic or not why does he bother ranting about it? BTW, before loosing it's meaning pythonic didn't mean reinventing the wheel. And …

To add to the discussion, if you have prior programming experience and you are familiar with the basic concepts you need to work with either of those frameworks, mainly OOP and MVC…

If HTML5/Canvas is slugish Flash is a corpse.

We use redmine. It's great software both for small and large teams, but the deployment options range from bad to worse.