Richard Stallman back in the late ’70 were compelled to start GNU project because he cannot hack the firmware of a prototype of a laser printer. Fourty years later people using software libero still quarrel with printers. Me for example…. on the previous (Ubuntu) box I was able to smoothly use that printer. Now Centos…
Category: Fun
Status
When your machine memory starved the good old xterm is a blessing.
Fun, Javascript
The good parts
Fun, Liberty Eiffel, Mood
I’m really doing it
Yes, I’m really doing it. Cloning Liberty eiffel repository into a virtual Microsoft Windows instance to help Petroo’s effort of porting GNU Liberty Eiffel to Windows, the same day its Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90%
Eiffel, Fun, Liberty Eiffel, Mood, Senza categoria
Dumbest line of code, ever
properties_upper: INTEGER is do Result := properties_upper-1 end See my commit of 7 January 2016. Actually I commite that line on the previous 20 june, but I quite remember I wrote it in the middle of the night. I shall stop wasting time in early evening and stick to coding….
Fun, Mood
Today’s lesson
Never, ever say “I was never…” bacause Murphy’s law will soon take its toll Lately I’ve written I was never stopped working by an upgrade. Well, actually I wasn’t stopped but have you ever tried working on a box that keeps swapping and thrashing at your slightest action?
Fun, Mood
Who said Knight Rider?
Nvidia’s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove. I’ve just read Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World coming from Slashdot. “KITT, drive me home!”
