Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? – Slashdot
A perfect chance to switch to software Libero aka free-as-in-freedom software.
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? – Slashdot
A perfect chance to switch to software Libero aka free-as-in-freedom software.
Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? – Slashdot
Every engineer worth this name will rejoyce if it comes out to be actually true.
For those who appreciate like me the almighty P2! I’m slightly mithered discovering this:
If you’re wondering why these aren’t appearing in the WordPress.org plugin and theme repositories, it’s because these are very rough releases. We don’t suggest using o2 on a production website, unless you know what you’re doing, and you’re willing to get your hands dirty debugging, tweaking, and optimizing to your specific environment.
The disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectrevulnerabilities has brought anew level of attention to the security bugs that can lurk at the hardwarelevel. Massive amounts of work have gone into improving the (still poor)security of our software, but all of that is in vain if the hardware givesaway the game. The CPUs that we run in our systems are highly proprietaryand have been shown to contain unpleasant surprises (the Intel managementengine, for example). It is thus natural to wonder whether it is time tomake a move to open-source hardware, much like we have done with oursoftware. Such a move may well be possible, and it would certainly offersome benefits, but it would be no panacea.
InvoicePlane is a free and open source application to manage your quotes, invoices, payments and customers.
… at my would-be coauthors, would someone please tell them, and every non-native-English-speaker-but-aspiring-English-author, to read this? Please, please, please, please, please. In English the verb “allow” cannot take an infinitive as a complement. Ever. You may not write “my method allows to improve productivity” (even if it’s true, which it probably isn’t, but never mind). […]
Wow. That’s a constructive way to criticize 🙂
Leggendo «PC di casa down, LKML down | Mia mamma usa Linux!» mi sento tanto, tanto acaro 😛