As per this week’s LWN.NET: Embedded SELinux SELinux has a well-earned reputation for being able to restrict processes to only use those resources that have been specifically allowed by policy, but it is rather resource intensive. Yuichi Nakamura presented Hitachi’s research into bringing SELinux into a more resource constrained embedded environment. One of the first [...]
Mac tip: Activity Monitor’s CPU pane is nice, but if you want a bigger picture of what’s going on inside your Mac’s CPU, navigate to /Library/Application Support/HWPrefs and launch the CPUPalette program. (If you don’t find it there, insert your Leopard install disc, click on Optional Installs, select Packages, and double-click on CHUD.pkg; that will [...]
How about 10: 1. National parks (starting in the mid-1800s) 2. Social security (1930s) 3. The Manhattan Project (1940s) 4. Tennessee Valley Authority (1930s – current) 5. The mortgage interest deduction (post-WWII) 6. The G.I. Bill (post-WWII) 7. The Apollo Program (1960s) 8. The Peace Corps (1961 – current) 9. The Clean Air Act, as [...]
Not yet full parity with the browser version but a welcome advancement nonetheless.
A vivid example why there’s i18n and l10n: Back in the Lanman 2.0 days, Brian Valentine (who ran the Lanman group) made up a series of T-Shirts for the team with the words: Lan Manager… We’re back and we’re BAD”. For the non-english speakers reading this, the use of “BAD” is an American idiom that [...]
“`tmp’ is an awful identifier, and renaming it to `temp’ hardly improves it.”
Borowitz strikes again White House Appearance ‘A Painful Reminder,’ Experts Say President George W. Bush used a Rose Garden appearance today to reassure investors that he was at the helm of the U.S. economy, causing stock markets to plummet around the world. “You don’t have to worry about this economy, because I am in charge [...]
Mozilla’s guide to the Javascript language. If you’ve only ever learned Javascript from reading snippets of script on the web, go here. ]The closest thing to Thinking in Java, for Javascript?]
What a great name for it: …burn their library down and start over with a new, incompatible version. Sexier name than just “Big Bang”.
Duh. Sadly, not so obvious to many. Some good quotes: A-grade engineers are unfortunately similar to Welsh longbowmen: devastatingly potent compared to their peers, but you have to start their training at age 10 or so. Simply upping the salaries of A-grade engineers won’t magically create more of them. We know this, as we tried [...]
