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I've heard of Minix as a tool for learning about operating system design. Which OS is a recommended for study purposes? As in operating system design and architecture.

Large wattage items aren't on for that long in my experience. We could get our electric use right down and probably run it on solar during the summer months, save for the fridge/fr…

Perhaps we should build better software that helps to reduce power in electrical devices? A decade back I remember every office in a building I worked in (in the UK), leaving their…

Since realised that I've bought both SD and MicroSD cards with and without cases. A MicroSD got bent in the post, bought as new. And a accidentally put my foot on an SD while shuff…

Hairsplitter.

Don't the MicroSD cards come with plastic cases, but not the larger SD cards?

Except when you tread on them. As I found out yesterday. I had another that got damaged in the post, bent and dead.

Regarding tracking. We had a hickup at work, with a url that triggered an expensive cronjob. It was being hit mysteriously. It turned out to be the new tab page in Chrome or Firefo…

Not to mention web sites that use a graphical icon in the background instead of a textual one or lack a fallback X on pop up windows. I'm forever groping around trying to shut thes…

There's nothing wrong with optimising for Grandma. The key is to make the most useful features easy to get at, and the more powerful ones discoverable. The bookmark/history manager…

Well kind of. I bookmark sites and then bring them back up by focusing on the location bar (CTRL+L), then typing * (to search bookmarks), and typing a few characters to get me to s…

The problem I have with Firefox is that it just doesn't really innovate. We've had some small UI changes. But there's legacy cruft still in there that isn't addressed. Like the boo…

On an Android tablet I have, tab switching under Chrome can be done with a thumb gesture. Tab switching under Opera for me is a fiddle and an annoyance. And that's on a larger devi…

I'd be very happy with all animation/audio being click to play. I'd like to nominate a video player to play videos. Currently I can't play Youtube videos in Firefox, so I have to o…

Exactly, this is window managment territory. I think that tabs came about with Opera because they were essentially cheap windows, and as window management has been so dire on most …

I enjoyed listening to the author of Open Molar on Floss Weekly: https://www.openmolar.com/

It breaks paging.

You could actually have quite a bit of fun with this kind of wordplay.

Just be careful... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2012/nov/22/...

You might be able to flip this a little. I can spend lots of time sitting in front of the screen and achieving pretty much nothing. Whereas sometimes a good walk and logical run th…

I tried this for a short while until a local cat pissed on my netplug! I actually found it quite hard to get comfortable. That's the biggest barrier to being portable in my eyes.

I'm wondering if a Microsoft or an Apple employee has some rough estimate of the amount of Dvorak users compared to Qwerty and other keyboard layouts? It would be nice to have a li…

I remember reading a study that suggested that having a mobile library with onboard printer to print your request instead of a paper loan, would work out cheaper. Each library loan…

Took me a while to work out just how to preview fonts on that page.

Just a side note, as someone that works at home a lot, physically by myself. Others can treat you with suspicion. A few neighbours have colluded and perceive me to be a monster. I …