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Agreed, and we use Markdown where we can. But inevitably some product manager comes along and demands tables inside tables or embedded reuse of content... and it's back to DITA. Ox…

Professional tech writer here: We use GitHub and a tool called OxygenXML to write docs-as-code in an XML DTD called "DITA". It's a hefty IBM invention from the early aughts, but it…

> The problem is, there are very few tutorials showing you the current best practices. As someone looking to expand from simple Python scripts to serious Python projects, this is m…

Given how regularly Western Bitcoin exchanges are hacked, I'm not convinced anyone has the knowledge to securely manage a Bitcoin attack.

Atom packages debs in their GitHub repo which work in Debian 8. There's no repo you can add to your sources that I am aware of, but you can manually download the deb from https://g…

Give it time. Once systemd runs out of Unix utilities to consume, it will inevitably turn on WinInit.exe and the Service Control Manager.

Original size: A mere 4.3 GB.

> Now, looking at a device like this, I automatically compare it to something like a tractor or plow. It demands constant connectivity to Google HQ... it's full of secret code... i…

Those responsible for auditing the auditors who have just been audited, have been audited.

As is standard for a Phoronix.com "article".

As long as the people submitting those pull requests understood the ramifications of contributing code gratis to a proprietary platform, there's nothing sad about it.

Agreed, it's not as deep as SC4. Colossal Order has a lot of plans for DLC, and in the meantime there are mods and assets all over the Steam Workshop. It's enough to tide me over u…

If only the US had a STV system where I could satisfy both my idealism and my pragmatism, in order.

Please don't post LWN subscriber-only content until it's released to the public. I value LWN and would like to see its subscriber numbers increase, not have its content poached by …

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Agreed, GP's post was about the technical merits of PS. PowerShell may be the greatest thing since virtual desktops, but that doesn't help me until PS 3.0 is included in the OS by …

> This cmdlet is introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0. So... I can only guarantee it's included on my customers' computers if they have Windows 8 or higher. I'm happy most of them …

Love JQ, been using it for the past year. I'm very much looking forward to the regex support in 1.5.

We're delivering CHM now and migrating to shipping folders with plain-old-HTML. Customers get the same content locally when they press F1 as they would if they found the documentat…

> It would be the right thing for Google to remove SPDY at this point It's going away, just maybe not soon enough for everyone's tastes. From the blog: > We plan to remove support …

More like Twitter++++.

For the low, low price of $2000 you can buy one of my new, patent-pending Thunderbolt TPM dongles. Simply plug it in, reboot your machine, and you're protected from future EFI firm…

That's one of the audio cables from the sound stage. If you look closely you can see the shadow of a boom mic on one of the rocks.

> [3] I'm running Wheezy on another machine, and shellshock still hasn't been fixed there, whereas Arch had it patched within hours. Debian patched Wheezy for Shellshock within hou…

2051: One brave racoon escapes from a human-controlled racoon detention and experimentation center. He steals a ship and heads out into the Milky Way. 2052: Rocket Racoon forms an …