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[Text for those who will hit the paywall] It was once used by nearly 1bn people, making it one of the world’s best-known technology brands. But even Microsoft, its maker, has been …

Arxiv paper, with more relevant (albeit highly specialized) information than Nature's abstract: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2689.pdf

"Universities are no longer institutions of inquiry but ‘safe spaces’ where delicate flowers of diversity of race, sex, orientation, ‘gender fluidity’ and everything else except di…

I remember Tim Russ ("Tuvok") describing his encounter with Avery Brooks ("Sisko"); Tim said Avery was "physically intimidating"; Tim is no skinny-fairy, either - but one can easil…

Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... for those of you getting the "Over Quota" error.

Also, part 2: http://hal2020.com/2013/10/10/the-future-of-microsoft-part-2...

> So you want to hire somebody for less than ~ $20 per hour. > And you expect the quality of $200 per hour experienced developer. > Stop having crazy expectations. Enough said.

Closer to home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo

Anyone use it along with Apache's OpenOffice? Which one is (in your experience) less buggy/more stable in its current incarnation?

Firefox 21 (Windows) seems to be vulnerable, too.

Not interested in taking notes -- and yes, I read those files thoroughly (and, sometimes, painfully...) from the beginning to the end.

Honest question: is it any good? I deal with A LOT of pdf files on a daily basis (theoretical physics) and I've always wanted a big-screen, e-ink reader (plus free wireless access …

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainat_Soomro

If you click on the small triangle/"arrow" in the bottom-right corner (when the "New Message" window is open) you are given the possibility to "temporarily switch back to the old C…

No TextWrangler?!

> My OS X Lion System finally (finally!) stabilized > around 10.7.5, stopped kernel panicking, beach balling, > and just outright hanging. May I ask what you've been doing? Old Uni…

Huh? :-( http://i.imgur.com/taamA.png

39 :-) (As per Youtube's video title - "Adriano Celentano - PRISENCOLINENSINAINCIUSOL (1974)"

Direct link to the official announcement: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Gmail/posts/H1mkyyY2nW4

"I still don’t understand the meaning and differences between /bin, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin" Oh. OK, then.

As Lt. Commander Worf would say, "We shall see".

Hm, I've already looked at OpenBox and quite liked it. Maybe I should take it for a longer spin.

1. I have a relatively old laptop (Pentium Dual-Core, T4200); 2. Its memory is OK(-ish): 4GB; 3. I never cared about eye candy and fluff, I always wanted the snappiest response ava…