From C|Net comes news that digital restrictions management hurts audio player battery life. Yet another reason to avoid it.
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Kevin Kelly has a great piece on what he calls ‘consensus web filters’ — that is, sites which rely on their readers to submit & rank items of import. This is a category which will become only more important with time; the ability to filter out items in which one is interested out of the millions generated daily is highly useful.
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Kevin Kelly has a great piece on what he calls ‘consensus web filters’ — that is, sites which rely on their readers to submit & rank items of import. This is a category which will become only more important with time; the ability to filter out items in which one is interested out of the millions generated daily is highly useful.
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A Swede set up his fully-patched Mac Mini online and challenged all comers to try to crack into it. It took a single cracker 30 minutes to do so. Doh!
05 February 2018: updated URL
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A Swede set up his fully-patched Mac Mini online and challenged all comers to try to crack into it. It took a single cracker 30 minutes to do so. Doh!
05 February 2018: updated URL
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The little town of Steamboat, Colo. has switched to free software. Ever onward, Colorado!
06 February 2018: updated URL
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The little town of Steamboat, Colo. has switched to free software. Ever onward, Colorado!
06 February 2018: updated URL
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An excellent LiveJournal post examines programming languages in terms of sexual relationships. Extremely funny if you know what it’s about; beyond opaque if you don’t. I get it, so I loved it!
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An excellent LiveJournal post examines programming languages in terms of sexual relationships. Extremely funny if you know what it’s about; beyond opaque if you don’t. I get it, so I loved it!
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The GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 has been released, with some exciting new changes. Given that gcc is at the heart of almost everything running on my system, it’s good to see the development is continuing and improvements are being made.
And to think that once upon a time people charged huge sums for compilers!
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The GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 has been released, with some exciting new changes. Given that gcc is at the heart of almost everything running on my system, it’s good to see the development is continuing and improvements are being made.
And to think that once upon a time people charged huge sums for compilers!
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initng is a a new way of starting services on a Unix machine, taking advantage of the fact that many boot-time processes can be started synchronously. I’m not certain if it’s as stable as the old SysV init, but it’s certainly worth a look.
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