The Dept. of Commerce wants to treat foreign researchers’ access to scientific technology as export to hostile nations. Which is to say, if you have the misfortune of being an Indian student or a Russian scientist, and you want to say, use a microscope, you will need to fill out a request (complete with your […]
These human interface guidelines should be required reading for all software developers. Very apt advice. And people wonder why there are so few women in open source…
More Gentoo bugzilla humor: xmms-1.2.9 goes down more often than a drunken whore. An apt description…
In the spirit of exam season in universities worldwide, here is a quiz for aspiring gentoo devs and ebuild contributors.
Here is complete, non-emotional, well-stated summary of the KHTML vs. WebCore debacle. Conclusion: WebCore is a defacto fork, and /. posters […]
Replaced my dying 19-inch Viewsonic CRT with a Samsung SyncMaster 730B. Looks nice, and no dead pixels. Complaints: doesn’t like plain old VGA mode, meaning BIOS display is partially cut off (this also happens to the default Linux text console, forcing me to finally set up a VESA framebuffer). Also, the colors aren’t quite right. […]
Russ Key is the most useful Firefox extension ever. If your Cyrillic typing skills are lacking, your keyboard is only labeled in Latin, and your friends are making fun of you for attempting to type Russian (incomprehensibly) in the Latin alphabet, this is the extension for you. Right click on an input field, select Russ […]
The Sunday Times has published a memo describing a meeting between Tony Blair, his advisors, and senior members of the British Cabinet, that took place on July 23, 2002. You can read the Sunday Times’ own analysis if you wish, but the memorandum speaks eloquently and for itself. By mid-2002, the US had made a […]
If Hannibal is right, US leaders want to destroy the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review; the short-term effect being political and/or financial gain for the fuckers currently in office, and probable long-term effect being the demolition of the system of checks and balances, and of the edifice of US democracy that is built on […]
To my absolute surprise, I discovered that Python has a nice, logical, and at least 60% sane syntax for dealing with character set conversion. (This is in contrast with virtually all other languages on earth, which have barely entered the Unicode era, and if so, somehow believe that their version of Unicode is the one […]
HOLY COW I’M TOTALLY GOING SO FAST OH F***
Damn these fools, they are making the rest of us gentoo users look even less sane than we really are…
How to make fake fingerprints and how to compress fingerprint images efficiently. (via comments on boinboing)
Brief guide to creating horizontal menus using CSS, along with links to more detailed explanations — quite useful.
A point-by-point comparison of various version control systems (both open-source and commercial ones). Predictably, VSS is by far the worst.
Is this the real […]