Christophe Résigné wrote
Ia full javascript (~3000 lines of code) remake of the classic Amiga’s operating system
in his Chrome Experiments.
And it feels almost like the original!
A truly smart guy!
Stick to standards!
Ok, it’s time to feverishly stick standard like WebRTC, aka Firefox Hello! In fact it seems that Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting?
Fool’s day
Only on the fool’s day I could have done the foolishness of coming to work on hour earlier than usual for the sake of a.l bet with a coworker… 🙂
Torvalds’ Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong – from Slashdot
Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other’s ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS’s development: “I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. […] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. […] I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.”
I shall keep it in mind. I hope it’s not too late.
VoCore: Mini Linux Computer | Slashdot Deals
VoCore: Mini Linux Computer, Take on Endless Electronic Projects with the Tiniest Linux Computer Yet!
This is more powerful than my first Linux box, which was an Amiga 1200 with 16mb of memory and a 50mhz Motorola 68060 CPU! They can’t make it smaller, they’ve hit the size of an Ethernet plug!
Crazy
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9 celtius degrees and you say it will snow? Are you crazy, openweathermap.org?
A civil engineer’s rant
That’s not mine. Our new building code is born old. Bureaucracy stubbornly requires the engineer to comply to impossible requirements: old gravel walls bound with insufficient amount of cement and without rebars should comply to ductility requirements of new steel-reinforced, new walls but you cannot rebuild it! Those are absurd, unfulfillable requirements but those bureaucrats just don’t care: they apply the law inflexibly against engineers while they blandly allowed other to blatantly violate the spirit of good construction rules them until recent past.
We need a silent retreating-revolution like those depicted inAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand where
most prominent and successful industrialists abandon their fortunes and the nation itself, in response to aggressive new regulations, whereupon most vital industries collapse.
We are quickly turning our country in a hell like that.
TopIcons Plus – GNOME Shell Extensions
the “modern” way to have tray icons on your Gnome3 desktop. So you will get something like this:
They got an Elephant In the House
From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot
Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding Ubuntu Linux to its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud offering. That’s all well and good, he says, but it’s not enough. There’s one thing Microsoft could do to gain real open-source trust: Stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents. But, there’s too much money at stake, writes sjvn, for this to ever happen. For instance, in its last quarter, volume licensing and patents, accounted for approximately 9% of Microsoft’s total revenue.
Quite right. But I also acknowledge that also SirJorgelOfBorgel is quite reasonable:
Update time
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Time has come to update those Libreoffice in our commercial office from the ancient 3.3 to the shiny LibreOffice 5