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IMO this is the real future of Wayland. It should always have been "mere plumbing" for X; the few processes that really need the isolation and security (e.g. screen lock) can be na…

Based on some (limited) experience with people for whom German is L1 who are speaking English I suspect (without knowing any German myself) that this is a typical formation that a …

I've been constantly logged in to IRC at home since 2002 or so. I am active nearly every day. At work most of the coordination between programmers is via IRC--even though we're all…

Perl (5 or 6) doesn't try to treat a programming language as a natural language. Instead it tries to allow the structure in which the author's brain defines the problem to be able …

How about we stop mincing around and make some gut-wrenching modifications? As long as you're going to go through all the trouble of shuffling things around let's kill more than on…

Partitioning has some security and performance gains. Different filesystems for different workload (e.g. perhaps xfs for database files and reisterfs for /tmp), mounting with noexe…

In Windows from a cmd.exe prompt you rely on the contents of %PATH% to access programs. This is a holdover. In Windows proper there are other methods; from cmd.exe you can use the …

BSD is in a position to differentiate in a way that Linux just isn't. In Linux all* software is third party, except for the kernel and util-linux (and maybe fileutuls or some other…

This is why it is essential for people who are concerned about privacy to use run Firefox and install the RequestPolicy extension. I simply don't whitelist facebook's domains and t…

Read it again, they are. Quote from the proposal: "For example, the adoption of Universal Time would give new flexibility to economic management in the vast East-West expanse of Ru…

The real innovation in this calendar, which I don't rememebr seeing in previous perpetual calendar proposals, is the system for 7-day-week seasonal drift adjustment. Adding an "ext…

Compliance with biblical mandates is a popularity hack. You need popularity if you want a new calendar to be adopted (or you need massive power on the level of an emperor^Wdictator…

For people who are apparently enlightened enough to realize that no calendar, however rational and perfect, will be accepted if it violates a certain religious rule (the sabbath), …