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Python 3.0 Released
Python 3.0 Released
Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - 18 hr 9 min ago
Bugger...I've been learning Python and now I'll have to adapt to Python 3.0. Oh well, 2.6 will be around for a long time at least. (see comment)
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How the recession will help telecommuters and save the world
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - 19 hr 27 min ago
I'm not convinced that telecommuting will become more universal, judging from my own past experience. I think it's more likely that the recession will accelerate the trend for offshoring of jobs, because bosses will have a more valid reason to give to off … (see comment)
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Why Are PCs So Slow?
Comment in News (1 digg, 3 replies) - 20 hr 34 min ago
I understood that one of the main reasons for performance remaining slow even though computers are getting faster all the time is greater levels of abstraction in programming languages. Some operating systems and other applications in the past have been w … (see comment)
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Why Are PCs So Slow?
Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - 20 hr 41 min ago
True. Pretty much anything will run Damn Small Linux and be snappy with it too. It's a great feeling to run an OS that respons as fast as that does. (see comment)
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Male science 'nerds' most likely to be virgins
Male science 'nerds' most likely to be virgins
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - 22 hr 29 min ago
No, really? I'd never have guessed!!! (see comment)
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At last, a place to sell your used MP3s
At last, a place to sell your used MP3s
Comment in News (-1 diggs, 0 replies) - 22 hr 34 min ago
What effort? That's hardly difficult, and probably quicker than downloading it from The Pirate Bay. (see comment)
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Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - 22 hr 34 min ago
There's already an excellent precedent for that in Linspire's Click 'N Run service. Ok, it didn't exactly set the world alight, but the basic idea is sound. (see comment)
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At last, a place to sell your used MP3s
At last, a place to sell your used MP3s
Comment in News (3 diggs, 3 replies) - on 12/04/2008
I'd use it, though what I'd probably do is first of all back up my music collection to an external hard drive, then sell the music, get the money, then restore it from the HD again! I suspect that a lot of people would do that too. It sounds like it's int … (see comment)
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At last, a place to sell your used MP3s
At last, a place to sell your used MP3s
Comment in News (-3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
Probably means in the sense of prepurchased only. (see comment)
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Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
I'd add that package managers make a big difference - you're somewhat less likely to get infected if you get all your software through a repository as you know everything in there will be fine. (see comment)
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Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
Yeah but does certification really mean that much? As far as I can see it means someone's been paid to rubberstamp something as meeting a set of guidelines. While I'm sure plenty of Linux distros could be certified as Unix, most distro makers have better … (see comment)
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Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Off Better Than Windows
Comment in News (1 digg, 3 replies) - on 12/04/2008
I think a package manager would make a big difference to security in OS X because it would almost guarantee that people were getting software from a safe source. If people can be weaned away from the habit of just downloading applications from the web and … (see comment)
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Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
Yes. The brain is by nature mutable and can rewire itself over time. The process of learning is believed to involve forming new connections between neurons. For this reason, people with damage to the area of the brain that controls a certain thing, such a … (see comment)
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Apple's iPod Problem
Apple's iPod Problem
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
I used to have a Sony Walkman MP3 player, and it was way ahead of the iPods of the time. It had a feature similar to Genius 2 years before Apple did, and it looked WAY nicer than any iPod. Sadly the software was crap beyond belief. If Sony were to use les … (see comment)
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How Windows Users Are Changing Linux
Comment in News (7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
Most of the problems people have with Linux are a result of the fact that it doesn't come preinstalled. Who has had to edit their xorg.conf on an Eee PC to get something working on the default OS? No-one. (see comment)
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How Windows Users Are Changing Linux
Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
You could argue the same about OS X. It's Unix-based after all, it just has a fancy GUI on top. (see comment)
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How Windows Users Are Changing Linux
Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
Linux has definitely gained users in the last year, because of the netbook phenomenon. OK, some run Windows, but a pretty high proportion (depends where you hear it from but now I believe around 30%) are sold with Linux. (see comment)
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Getting a grip on Python: Six ways to learn online
Getting a grip on Python: Six ways to learn online
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/04/2008
To be fair, my attempt at PHP was pretty half-arsed. But my experience is that the syntax of a programming language is one of the toughest things to get used to, and PHP doesn't have the clearest syntax, whereas Python is more English-like. (see comment)
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Getting a grip on Python: Six ways to learn online
Getting a grip on Python: Six ways to learn online
Comment in News (3 diggs, 1 reply) - on 12/03/2008
I've tried to learn several other languages in the past year - Perl, PHP and Java were the main ones - without much success. Now I'm learning Python and it's the first one I feel like I can make progress with. I highly recommend the book I'm using - Pytho … (see comment)
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OpenSolaris 2008.11 is ready
Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/03/2008
From what I hear btrfs is planned to surpass ZFS in features, but whether they actually succeed is another matter. But the guy they have working on it sounds confident, and he used to work on ReiserFS before (cue joke about Hans Reiser). (see comment)
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