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> retail POS generates a large amount of transactional data, and you need low latency for database syncing and credit card/loyalty card transactions. I've always been curious about…

Thank you, that's a better-written answer than anything I could get down. I'd just like to add that (as the article does a pretty good job of saying) perl is /unparalleled/ as a te…

> First off, the Flash updater on Windows works quite well on modern Windows systems. Speak for yourself; I only ever see it on system startup. I only reboot once every few months …

None of the clients I've used have passable lists support. Bitlbee (my current client of choice) doesn't have /any/ lists support.

>I use keyboard shortcuts in Firefox, and occasionally dream of an Awesome Bar that works like bash. This reminded me to check up on Ubiquity[1]. Mozilla doesn't even host a page f…

I do similar things with tab groups/stacks in Firefox and Opera (mainly to keep fewer than 20 tabs visible at once). Guess it just doesn't feel "right" to me to run my whole system…

I'm primarily a Windows user, though I dip into Linux pretty often. The first thing I do in any new install is to disable all but one or maybe two workspaces. Multiple workspaces j…

>Has either of them actually good (foss) drivers? I have to ask, what is the preoccupation with FOSS GPU drivers? Not just with boards like this, but even standard desktop hardware…

I think it's worth noting that even with several free alternative builds, some of them more frequently updated from source than the official binaries, people still buy and pirate t…

From what's been said in the forums and implied in that email they sent to API users, they're leaving the functionality in and just no longer creating the folder on install. My que…

YES! For anyone with a high latency (huge swathes of the US are still stuck with satellite or mobile and the tech industry seems to have ignored this), twitter is a nightmare. The …

I think that may just be because "normal" people finally got a real person to associate with the faceless (ha!) entity that is Facebook. Shifting from "I've never heard of this man…