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I enjoyed switching from FreeBSD to Ubuntu 8.04 some time ago -- the FreeBSD went into the rack and I could do office work on a nice Gnome desktop environment. Until now. Gnome is …

For you non-German speakers out there "google ist doof" actually says that Google IS stupid. It doesn't happen with a capital G, though.

HN posts are so enjoyable. Unless I'm thinking up novel animal names for designers that confront me with such a "color" scheme, because 1) I have a very hard time reading even half…

This is all a steaming pile of horseshit. It won't pass proper journalism.

I'm leaving Hacker News. If things got to be censored, it's got to be done on my desk and not by an algorithm or anyone else. If I got to be called a spammer, it's got to be done b…

Uh? Is that new? Whenever I posted something already there I got diverted to it. And I believe the older submission got an extra point. That was cool. Maybe it's different when the…

right... now this submission is visible again. weird. maybe I need new glasses. :p check out http://xycombinator.com though

And why are submissions marked as being dead by default? I find it hard to believe someone is marking it dead - even this question - within less than three seconds. I'd rather pref…

"Bill Gates the software prodigy". Ha-ha. A PR-fuckup that unfortunately found its way into the minds of journalists who should know better. In the 80's many books have been writte…

Lots of fun to be had playing around with your brain and a 9V battery!? No. On average a body has about 1000 ohms (wet hand to wet hand) which in my mind divides down to 9mA, 4.5 t…

Now let's mass-email Bellard to coax him into publishing an open-source version. :)