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What I learned from reading the Android user manual
I love my Nexus One Android phone and, in general, I’ve found the user interface to be very intuitive. However, I recently discovered that there’s a 340-page user manual for Android. I decided to read the whole damn thing and … Continue reading
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Memory will be the real performance bottleneck on your VPS
This well-done benchmark comparison of several Virtual Private Server vendors gives me warm and fuzzies that I chose Linode for my new hosting provider. However, the benchmarks chosen mostly test CPU performance and the bottleneck when hosting a dynamic web … Continue reading
Implementing Markdown with Regular Expressions
Jeff Atwood has a post about something I’m intimately with, implementing a subset of Markdown using regular expressions. After years of tweaking and user contributions, the regexps in the Markdown Vim syntax file are now so complex, even I don’t … Continue reading
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Stephen Fry wishes GNU a happy birthday
Stephen Fry made an excellent video explaining Free Software and wishing the GNU project a happy 25th birthday.
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How to improve Free Software usability
Matthew Paul Thomas is back with an article about why Free Software has poor usability, with concrete suggestions for how to solve the problems. Thomas is an interaction designer who works for Canonical. You might remember his list of 69 … Continue reading
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Dependency Injection and Unit Testing
The Google Testing Blog has one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen of why dependency injection is useful. This got me thinking about how people handle this stuff in dynamic language land and I found Dependency Injection in Ruby and … Continue reading
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition Released
The latest release of Ubuntu Linux has hit the download servers. One of the more exciting aspects of this release is that it contains a new installer that allows Windows users to install inside their Windows hard drive partition without … Continue reading
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Ubuntu Brainstorm
Ubuntu has launched Brainstorm, a Dell Ideastorm-like site where you can post Ubuntu feature requests and vote them up and down.
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Mozilla Messaging
The new Mozilla organization dedicated to developing Thunderbird, Mozilla Messaging, has launched. They will also be developing Lightning, Sunbird, and an IM client, which is all very exciting. I’m using Lightning as my calendar at work now and it is … Continue reading
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Yahoo and Microsoft
Many people have pointed out that the scary thing about Microsoft potentially buying Yahoo is that Yahoo owns many important web sites (Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, etc.) and supports many important open source projects (PHP, FreeBSD, YUI, Hadoop, Squid, etc.) I’m … Continue reading
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XKCD Attempts High-Signal Chatroom
Randall Monroe of webcomic XKCD came up with a great idea for reducing the noise in the XKCD IRC channel: filter out all sentences that have been spoken in the past. A moderator bot scans two years worth of chat … Continue reading
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Intel leaves OLPC project
As a follow-up to the previous story about the many competitors OLPC has faced, Intel has now left the project and is continuing with its Classmate laptops.
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OLPC’s Many Misfortunes
The Wall Street Journal has a sort of tragic story about the trouble the One Laptop Per Child project has had selling its XO laptop to developing nations. OLPC has faced competition from Intel and other low-cost laptop manufacturers and … Continue reading
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Open Source SimCity
A Linux port of the original SimCity source code is being open sourced for use on the One Laptop Per Child. There are already a couple of open source clones of SimCity for Linux, Lincity and LinCity-NG, but it’s nice … Continue reading
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