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If you are not familiar with Linux (for example, you're working on Windows or mostly doing web-development), it could entirely be. Mac OS is more friendly, but I certainly saw many…

I cannot believe that people can have that question. Or, well, I do believe it, but then my second question usually is: did you ever use linux/bsd or any OSS project in the past? I…

Not sure what you mean by "map data". You can certainly have a list of props that are in the way and have them as a mesh. It's certainly easier if you have only one prop, but you h…

I got an HP EliteBook Folio 9470m at work (not my personal choice), but I though I should share my impressions. I was genuinely impressed by the fact that this is the only ultraboo…

I've been designing honeypot/traps as triggers for mail filtering infrastructures for years, and this is very hard to automate process. It started like something that you could wat…

If you ever tried to handle any mail server at all, you would recognize that you have choice in using spamhaus (or any other DNSBL). These people have put in place a high quality m…

In this area was hoping for the NoteSlate to succeed, but it seems that it went waporware. For notetaking the refresh speed is not so critical, as the areas to refresh are limited …

The N8000 is a different class of device, low spec / android based phone .

Can you give us some feedback on how the screen hinge flips? Is there a slot for the pen?

Are there any digitizer users here? I use a Wacom digitizer daily for notes and sketches instead of using pen&paper. My wet dream is a pressure&tilt sensitive/e-ink based device, b…

I think that this scenario routinely happens at many companies. Only you don't hear public stories about it, because in the end what happens is the same for all software: continuou…

Does anyone have some experience with pelican (possibly liquidink) and rest2web? There are many static website generators, but I'm looking into a python+ReST solution. I've been us…

I could say exactly the same for any source-to-C compiler, and/or any system allowing decent FFI with C. Unless there is some different reason than the JVM itself, C has an even la…

I wouldn't normally care about the state of GNOME, but as a developer myself I'm in a really sorry state of affairs regarding GTK itself. At some point with 2.x, GTK stopped being …

I wish I could see this kind of discussion in the wayland/name-your-compositor mailing lists. Currently it would be easy to implement a new attribute in the ICCCM so that applicati…

Also, "visual languages" even when restricted to very specific domains (think of DSP blocks, a tried&tested domain where visual languages are abundantly abused) tend to get very me…

I've been recently travelling with several friends for a long trip. It was very fun to see how you cannot use any recent macbook or an ipad as a "portable" computer anymore, as you…

SGI's IRIX always had the ability to do since decades ago. Of course, like others have stated, the main reason is to conserve both memory (for pointers) and more importantly bus ba…

GCC speedup is actually quite substantial in math/numerical code (which, in turn, is not as fast as Intel's ICC). Moreover, GCC supports OpenMP, whereas Clang does not. This alone …

I agree. In fact, this is what I would have expected to read in the article. The only single major issue in creating infrastructure in C++ is the enormous added complexity in the f…

WMF anyone? Windows MetaFile contain(ed) serialized GDI graphic calls to generate the picture in a resolution independent way, while still working as a vector file format that othe…

This page represents everything I hate about "HTML5" so far: flashy for no reason, slow as hell and for all for very little content.

A few months ago I discovered this software gem on StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034038/simple-file-upload-download-manager-for-distributing-files): http://www…

I agree with you here. Several languages (let's call them "advanced"?) are better than other, ok, but actually very few introduce actually "innovative" constructs. Most of the perc…

"These guys have solved the problem using the tried and trusted mathematical technique of sheer brute force. In essence these guys have examined every potential 16-clue solution fo…