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Saying that fork forces overcommit is strange. Fork is just one of the things that allocates memory. If you don't want overcommit fork should simply fail with ENOMEM if there isn't…

I've heard that you're supposed to put your feet against the ceiling of the car before unbuckling if you end up in a rolled over car. Has anyone tried that?

I also have a one-year-old Samsung and I managed to get it to not overscan for at least one input. Put your Mac Minis HDMI into the HDMI 1 / DVI input and then select the input in …

It is quite obvious that the article compares Chrome against Safari. This makes you objection to point 5 invalid, since Safari uses a search bar, not a search dialog and the thing …

The fact that a tree builds itself out of thin air is one of my favorite tidbits of knowledge. However, this kind of metabolism is only used by plants. Humans, as all animals, gets…

There is nothing wrong with indenting lists negatively. In fact some say it is more correct: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-st...

You can always combine a fluid layout with a max-width for your text. Besides its not the width of the monitor that matters, its the width of the windows and I like my windows narr…

I think it's Lua, not json. Lightroom being written in Lua an all.

Sorry. I missed that.

AMD is also fabless.

I really like the idea of strace for dependency detection. Unfortunately some people still use Windows which means I have to build on Windows. Does anyone know of an equivalent to …

I believe this prediction code wasn't included in the original Quake. It was added later in QuakeWorld which was some sort of multiplayer enhancement for Quake. Please correct me i…

Since Google Earth was inspired by Snow Crash I'm not sure you can classify it as prescient in the same way.

An alternative to government regulations is to organize in unions. Then you can have somewhat equal partners negotiating. Of course there are disadvantages to unions, as there are …

To me the only thing killer about the iTunes integration for the iPhone is that it almost kills the experience for me. I would really like to get rid of iTunes, but I can't since I…

They claim the slowness is due to Mutter. They say the are moving (back?) to Compiz, and that it improves performance a lot. http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-shi…

Chrome is taking some steps to improve this with its sand boxing and principle of least authority for its many processes. It will be interesting to see how this translates to a ful…

No need to use apt. Apt is great for handling dependencies, but when it comes to mac apps there are just two parts: OS X and the app. No dependencies between apps and no dependenci…

Well, gmail was announced on April, 1, with an unheard of 1 Gig of storage, so I think Google likes to do this sort of thing on purpose.

Is that really true? I would guess most people live in the country they were born in.

Really interesting, but isn't this more about what white people want other people to think that they like, rather than what they actually like. It would be interesting to compare t…

I'd say it depends on what your goals are. If you want to build a following for your blog then it is definitely doing, but if your goal is to lose weight or renovate your home, the…