Comment Wait.... (Score 1) 152
Aren't "Common sense" and "the Internet" mutual exclusive things?
Comment Re:The short version... (Score 1) 233
5) Safari performance is up
6) Battery life is down
7) And we have more excellent waterslides than any other planet we communicate with.
Sorry, had to go for a Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure tie-in. Long live Rufus!
Submission + - Impressive Stop Motion Donkey Kong Animation (youtube.com)
Comment Re:Mac OS X is not founded on FreeBSD (Score 1) 220
I cannot understand why year after year we have to bring this topic up... Gentlemen! Why can't you do your research and believe that Darwin is not based / founded on FreeBSD. Most of the Darwin / Mac OS X source code is from 386-BSD and not from the FreeBSD. Darwin Is a fork from 4.4 BSD fork 386-BSD fork made for NextStep. It's true it was updated with some of the components from the FreeBSD userland, but that is pretty minor.
So the page right on Apple's site, where it states:
Darwin 1.4.1 is the UNIX-based, open-source foundation of Mac OS X. It is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides...
is incorrect then?
Submission + - Happy 20th birthday, FreeBSD (freebsdnews.net)
Submission + - Git[/SVN/Mercurial] and Growing a FOSS Community (outercurve.org)
dp619 writes: Outercurve Foundation technical director Stephen Walli has written a guide about how configuration management tools make accepting software changes easier so that open source projects can handle many contributions. "The more time you save outside developers that might be interested in contributing, the more time they have to work on the contribution they want to make, rather than losing time and possibly interest in trying to get past building the software," he said.
4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101
A reader points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."
GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267
Hot on the heels of the Gtk+ 3.8 release comes GNOME 3.8. There are a few general UI improvements, but the highlight for many is the new Classic mode that replaces fallback. Instead of using code based on the old GNOME panel, Classic emulates the feel of GNOME 2 through Shell extensions (just like Linux Mint's Cinnamon interface). From the release notes: "Classic mode is a new feature for those people who prefer a more traditional desktop experience. Built entirely from GNOME 3 technologies, it adds a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen. Each of these features can be used individually or in combination with other GNOME extensions."
Comment I just need syncing (Score 1) 287
I'm fine with not having the Google Reader interface as I use Reeder on Mac and iOS, but I rely on it's integration with Google Reader to 1) Have a unified place for all of my subscriptions so I don't need to manually add them (or export/import) and 2) Keep my Articles Read in sync so that I don't have to scroll through all the stuff I've already seen that day, when I get home or on another device.
I'm hoping Reeder and other RSS aggregators come up with their own cloud-based sync. Barring any current good alternatives, there's an opportunity for a start up there, me thinks.
Submission + - FreeBSD Foundation Donations Exceed 2012 Goal (freebsdfoundation.org)
mbadolato writes: On December 9, 2012, Slashdot reported that the FreeBSD Foundation was falling short of their 2012 goal of $500,000 by nearly 50%. For all of those that continued to echo about how FreeBSD is dying, it's less than three weeks later and the total is presently nearing $200,000 OVER the goal. Netcraft continues to be wrong.
Comment Re:Legacy Code is not the issue here (Score 1) 360
Get hold of Martin Fowler, “Refactoring” and Michael C Feathers, “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”
I would also add Robert C. Martin's “Clean Code” to that list. for a lot of great advice on writing code. It doesn't matter how many years you've been writing code (I'm at around 30 years of doing it), that book has very valuable information that you'll be able to use.
Comment Re:dot slash, please (Score 2) 128
It's not a directory path. It's spoken URL hi-jinx. h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
Comment Re:Reality bites (Score 2) 418
Really? A TL:DR summary for 3 sentences? That's what we've come to?
Comment Al Gore was right on top of that! (Score 1) 241
Al Gore didn't go into the Senate until 1985. so inventing the Information Super Highway (née, Internet) must have been the very first thing he did when he got in office!
Comment Goofing off to get ahead? (Score 1) 141
Well if that's all it takes, I have a former coworker who's about to be elected President of the United States
