February 2008
26 posts
Redirecting Output from a Running Process →
Prozac does not work in most depressed patients →
“A study by Canadian scientist Martin Hocking shows that making a paper cup uses...”
– Neatorama (via nelix)
But do those figures also include the energy requirements to dispose of the plastic cup?
Not eating to pay the rent →
“Experts told the housing conference yesterday that Australia faced great social unrest and human suffering as well as chronic labour shortages without affordable housing.”
This story is a bit of an over exaggeration, some people might be choosing to skip meals to pay rent but I don’t imagine they have to. It’s more likely they are skipping meals so they can continue to...
Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption →
“Virtually everybody, including experts, will tell you that DRAM contents are lost when you turn off the power. But this isn’t so. Our research shows that data in DRAM actually fades out gradually over a period of seconds to minutes, enabling an attacker to read the full contents of memory by cutting power and then rebooting into a malicious operating system.”
X Persistent Remote Applications(XPRA) →
” X Persistent Remote Applications (xpra) is “screen for X”. It lets you run applications remotely (like ordinary X or VNC), but unlike ordinary X, these applications are “persistent” if you lose your connection, or even if you want to switch to another computer. Also unlike VNC, they are ordinary applications on your desktop managed by your window manager”
Plan 9 from Bell Labs version 4 - a review →
“Think different. Think very different! No, you’re not thinking different enough! Think so differently that thinking becomes not-thinking and different is different from different! Until your mind becomes no-mind and your thoughts are un-thoughts! Astrally project your self into space, beyond the reaches of the galaxy where time is not time…”
yeah, that’s been about...
Dubai Architecture →
“There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens.”
Very cool.
HotPlug →
“With HotPlug, you can move a computer without powering it down…Low level encryption such as Vista’s Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) can halt an investigation. Use HotPlug and Mouse Jiggler to prevent encryption technologies from activating. If you can carry away the computer while it’s still logged in, you maintain full access to the hard drive.”
good friend named sue →
“Thinking it would be the regular government propaganda of blah blah blah, be careful you don’t know, nobody does, I was shocked to find it was actually a scientology front pretending to be an expert on drug education.”
I lost weight when I switched to diet soda.
dawnowar:
It’s true. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.
Yeah, refined sugar is the major cause of obesity. That shit will fuck you up. The effects of artificial sweeteners have only been known to cause cancer when mega dosed to rats. The effects of refined sugar on human beings is well known.
“A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, “You should...”
– - Sir Arnold Bax
Marijuana growing in Sydney home →
””$1 million dollars worth of drugs that could have been sold to our kids is now off the streets as a result of an anonymous tip-off.” - Police Minister David Campbell
This guy actually seems to think he is doing a good thing preventing the supply of a product that is in high demand.
Tasers could kill Aborigines →
I guess we can finish what we started.
Parents of teen criminals may lose TVs →
I don’t think anyone should have a TV. It’s bad for the mind. But WTF?
I’m glad we’re a country of racists othewise this might look bad.
Why user space sucks →
“Dave set out to reduce the time it took his Fedora system to boot…As it turned out, the boot process involved calling stat() 79,000 times, opening 27,000 files, and running 1382 programs.”
Coding Like the Tour de France →
Epic flow control
rsstail →
“RSSTail is more or less an rss reader: it monitors an rss-feed and if it detects a new entry it’ll emit only that new entry.”
Framebuffer UI (fbui) →
FBUI, or FrameBufferUI, is a small, in-kernel graphical user interface for Linux.
January 2008
55 posts
86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore →
Computers these days are so powerful that it’s a waste of developer time to make any kind of optimisations……
