I've found that impressive page which holds pictures of... trash. Electronic trash. A portrait of mass consumption (via make).
"machine wash warm, inside out, with like colors, use only non-chlorine bleach, tumble dry medium, medium hot iron, do not iron print! OR GIVE IT TO YOUR WIFE"
The Linux Hater's Blog. Great fun, "in a way that xkcd is funny to Unixers. Whoever is writing that blog has extensive experience on Linux and enviable writing skills." --Miguel de Icaza
Almost ninety million, as I write this, and the numbers keep growing ... » . Over time this got us wondering: If we plotted all the geotagged photos associated with a particular WOE ID, would we have enough data to generate a mostly accurate contour of that place? Not a perfect representation, perhaps, but something more fine-grained than a bounding box. It turns out we can.
An impressive image, showing a cctv camera and the statement "what are you looking at?"
// Magic. Do not touch.
This article explains the new features in Python 3.0, compared to 2.6. Python 3.0, also known as “Python 3000” or “Py3K”, is the first ever intentionally backwards incompatible Python release. There are more changes than in a typical release, and more that are important for all Python users. Nevertheless, after digesting the changes, you’ll find that Python really hasn’t changed all that much – by and large, we’re mostly fixing well-known annoyances and warts, and removing a lot of old cruft.
Summary of classic the worse-is-better vs. the-right-thing discussion by Richard P. Gabriel.
FreeBSD 7.0 has already been released. If you are a real hacker, the best way to jump in and learn it is hacking together an introductory kernel module. In this article I’ll implement a very basic module that prints a message when it is loaded, and another when it is unloaded. I’ll also cover the mechanics of compiling our module using standard tools and rebuilding the stock FreeBSD kernel. Let’s do it!
An interview with Madd (LUG Sinsheim) on Windows Vista, Linux and the freedom that Free Software gives to its users (published in German language in the local newspaper Kraichgau Stimme)
