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...

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...

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...

Will Linux ever be mainstream?

Constantly different sites and communities always discuss the possibility of Linux becoming mainstream and when the mainstreaming will take ...