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fr0stzee writes:
I've been a coder for nearly as long as I can remember, starting out when I was young on the C64 and going from there. I always loved coding as a hobby, spending many hours after school and in my spare time programming my own little games and other apps. Now though, I've been through uni and I've since been programming in a full-time job for several years. I'm nearly 30 and what I've found is I've lost that drive to do my 'hobby' coding that I used to love so much. I'd love to make my own games one day and maybe have my own software company, but I find after 8 or more hours of sitting in front of a computer at work, the very last thing I want to do when I get home is sit in front of my machine and code- I'd rather watch TV, or cook a nice meal or have friends over. Hence the dream of one day being a successful indie developer seems like it'll never really happen. Yet I have friends who have no trouble coding alot, even though they work as programmers too. So, is this a pretty common thing for software developers, or is it just that I'm getting older and not as good as I used to be? I still love coding when I'm at work and I'm still very interested in it, but the minute I step out of the door and head home, all that interest and motivation seems to go out the window. Interested in hearing your thoughts.
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__aajbyc7391 writes:
Got a Linux Gadget Geek on your shopping list? You can't fail with a gift from this guide to the ten hottest Linux-powered devices gleaned from LinuxDevices.com's news throughout 2007. But in case that doesn't do it for you, WindowsForDevices has an alternative gift guide for those of the Redmondian persuasion. The gadgets range from $150, for the Zipit Wireless Messenger that runs Linux, to a $2,000 tiny Windows palmtop computer from FlipStart, the company founded in 2002 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and beyond.
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Mr TM writes:
Many arguments have been put forward as to why we've still not had the long-predicted (and long anticipated) "Year of Linux." But is the main reason that Linux is struggling to become mainstream the fact that running a Linux PC means living with a project PC — a PC that's always in a state of flux and you're always having to tinker and mess about with it. With Windows or Apple you have a better chance of having a stable platform to work with. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes compares running a Linux PC with owning a classic car:
"But if you want the whole classic car experience with a PC, then here's the recipe. Find an old PC, preferably one that wasn't very good to begin with (maybe an old Dell that was never that hot) and install Linux on that. There's a popular myth going around that Linux is ideally suited to old hardware. I'm not sure where this myth came from but my experience suggests that while Linux has lower hardware requirements than Windows Vista, you still have to be realistic as to the performance that you can expect from old hardware."
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An anonymous reader writes:
Various pro-competition organisations have now called to have Windows unbundled from PCs. This posting reviews the key arguments against such a move, along with an explanation as to why these arguments are invalid.
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tmk writes:
Running an Tor exit node in Germany is no good idea. Alex Janssen describes in his blog, how his flat got searched. The police hold him hours for questioning. This happened after had an argument with the German federal police. The consequences: Janssen shut down his Tor exit node.
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Anonymous Coward 2 writes:
The SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system. — Need more be said?
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thefickler writes:
Frequent mobile phone users have demonstrated slowed brain function in a recent European-Australian study. The brain activity from frequent mobile phone users shows more slow activity (increased Delta and Theta) and a slowing of the Alpha Peak Frequency, interpreted as a general slowing of brain activity.
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Dimentox writes:
The classic UNIX magic poster by Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences and featured a white bearded wizard with UNIX related things around him... Its really cool to find all the references.