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Cryptic Linux Distro Updates
We're almost in 2010, I thought by now to anyone who basically knows how to use a computer, general upgrade prompts in Linux Distros wou...
Malicious hackers are not out there
Security as it is today is an illusion. What? How could I say that, I'm not serious, am I? Most people today do not understand what secu...
We got excellent documentation!
Ever try to work with a library you've never dealt with before? How do you approach the task? Do you try to find another program which u...
By Unknown
Jumat, 06 November 2009
binary
BSD
closed source
CPU Detection
distribution
FatELF
flash
GTK
insane ideas
KDE
Library
Mac OS X
Portability
Qt
x86-64
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 ...
By Unknown
Kamis, 05 November 2009
bad code
crazy executives
good code
language
Library
open source
Optimization
PHB
They actually want bad code
So I was in this huge meeting yesterday, and I got the shock of my life. We were discussing how we're going to go about creating and mar...
Who still watches Television?
So I know a couple of people who every night or so, sit down and watch Television. I find the very thought of it mind boggling. Why would an...
By Unknown
Minggu, 25 Oktober 2009
apache
distribution
Firefox
HTTP
insane ideas
lighttpd
Mozilla
Optimization
protocols
Distributed HTTP
A couple years back, a friend of mine got into an area of research which was rather novel and interesting at the time. He created a website ...
Blogger Spam
If you remember, the other day I had a bit of a meltdown in terms of all the spam I saw piling up over here. I only have ~30 articles here,...
Why online services suck
Does anyone other than me think online services suck? The thing that annoys me the most is language settings. Online service designers one d...
By Unknown
Minggu, 21 Juni 2009
ALSA
CPU Detection
GNOME
insane ideas
KDE
ManyMouse
multicore
multiseat
OSS
How end users can utilize multicore processors
In recent years, the average desktop/workstation computer has gone from single core to multiple cores. Those of us who do video encoding, co...
By Unknown
Kamis, 18 Juni 2009
ALSA
API
BSD
closed source
flash
GNOME
KDE
Library
Mac OS X
open source
OSS
Portability
Windows
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...
Perfect sound with OSS version 4
So I just happened to be keeping my eye on some packages being upgraded in Debian on dist-upgrade, and something caught my eye, the package ...
Ancient coding ideas finally in English - Part 2
What is the best way to write it? Whatever is best for the program itself and best for the programmers. Be just as careful with with minor c...
Ancient coding ideas finally in English - Part 1
Each great programmer learned programming from the master before him. Be precise in writing code. Teach programming to others, as you'll...
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