Back when Google was running the first round of the Android programming challenge, a lot of excitement was generated by an augmented reality app called Enkin. To everybody's surprise, it didn't make it into the first round of finals, and seemd to disappear from sight. Turns out that Google had some other plans for them.

I did see one AR app in action on a G1, but I don't remember what it was called. The results were so-so... Hit and miss, sometimes it would get the buildings right, sometimes it wouldn't. But AR is definitely a very appealing possibility, and it'll probably improve very quickly. All the basic bits seem to be there.

Huh? It will only continue to take up the memory if the thread leaks memory. If the thread manages its local memory properly, then after it finishes, the process will only take up the shared memory + local memory for every active thread. Or, to use your analogy, the house will shrink.

Now, if you're contending that proper memory management is not entirely trivial, I agree

This guy has a set of opera keybindings which resemble vim. Works pretty well too. The only thing missing would be form field editing with vim bindings.

And the fact that he missed the obvious cool name of "vimoperator" ;)

So they finally figured out that djb was right; it took them mere 10 years. If he only didn't have such a... personality. Maybe we would've had something sane by now.

I on the other hand believe that the paramount need is to teach them the principles of DRY repeat yourself.

Intel's integrated graphics performance has been pretty progressively worse ever since switching from XAA, and rather abysmal ever since Xorg 1.5. Since then every release of X/mesa/xf86-video-intel made it even worse. Hopefully this release brings the entire GEM/UXA/KMS/whatever stack to a usable state. All this on a 945GM.

What's your experience with it so far? I'll try it out myself in a few days, but I'm eager to hear the results...

Ligesh has (had) a blog with an about page. Sounds a bit f**** up.

A number of hosts have been hit by this, see e.g. this post at WHT. The software itself is apparently closed source (i.e. obfuscated source). Based on what I read, it was also quite cheap (speculations were ~50 cents for a single VPS), so most budget VPS providers used it.

This includes 2host, where I got an account a few days back. A few hours later I got an e-mail saying they disabled the HyperVM panel. Nice.

I'll get off your lawn since I only started using Linux since 1.0.8 ;)

Might wanna try out Arch Linux. It kind of reminds me of Slack - just with a proper package manager and without an opinionated (B)DFL. BSD-style init, everything is generally real easy to configure by hand, and the packages are pretty close to vanilla. They are binary so usually you don't have to waste time compiling them yourself, but when you need to, it's real easy - their "automated build system" (ABS) is mighty cool. The base install is minimal, but they're not too obsessed with freedom, so you get a completely usable desktop with the default repos, and there's also a huge community-provided repository.

It's a rolling release though, so stuff does occasionally break. Still, by far my favorite modern desktop distro (I also tried Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE)