Progression and Regression of Desktop User Interfaces

As this Gregorian year comes to a close, with various new interfaces out now, and some new ones on the horizon, I decided to recap my person...

Undocumented APIs

This topic has been kicked around all over for at least a decade. It's kind of hard to read a computer programming magazine, third party...

FatELF Dead?

A while back, someone came up with a project called FatELF . I won't go into the exact details of all its trying to accomplish, but the ...

State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

About two years ago, I wrote an article titled the " The Sorry State of Sound in Linux ", hoping to get some sound issues in Linux...

What the heck is a PC?

So the other day a friend of mine comes over to discuss some business strategy. After chatting for a bit, he asks me if he could use one of ...

PATH_MAX simply isn't

Many C/C++ programmers at some point may run into a limit known as PATH_MAX. Basically, if you have to keep track of paths to files/director...