Comment Re:They totally failed to mention modern mechanica (Score 1) 201
Agreed. I love my Topre Realforce.
Comment US issue? (Score 1) 582
I'm working at a university in Sweden. This kind of behaviour would be totally unacceptable here (afaik).
Sure, the wired net with static IP's has a MAC filter but anyone is welcome to use the guest wlan which works ok as long as you don't need to access file shares behind our firewalls.
Comment Re:market share v. reality (Score 2) 340
...and it works well with nginx http://www.mono-project.com/FastCGI_Nginx
Comment Re:market share v. reality (Score 1) 340
Most server-side
Comment Re:Well *I* care!!! (Score 1) 95
For us working with web stuff there really isn't anything important missing from Mono.
Comment Re:Well of course (Score 1) 501
My HP EliteBook hasn't crashed once either since I got it 7 months ago. I do some heavy stuff on it including gaming. It's more of a desktop replacement than laptop but still, "it just works".
Comment Re:Lemons deserve mud (Score 1) 501
*All* MacBooks and MBP's older than 3 yrs belonging to people in my immediate surroundings have problems with hanging/freezing and/or screen glitches.
2 years ago one of my closest friends had to return his brand new 17" MBP *four times* due to broken hardware.
Apple != quality.
I'm not saying others are better, just that the hype surrounding Apple hardware is bollocks.
Comment Re:This is why... (Score 1) 317
Same here.
I wrote a docx-generating module in C# for reporting around 2 years ago. There were no problems with OO then and I've heard no complaints since (I tested it on OS X, Windows and Ubuntu).
It is after all just a zipped xml-file.
Comment Re:With what host? (Score 2) 154
Well, "Mac OS X guest on a Mac from a Windows or Linux host" implies running another OS on Mac/Apple hardware, does it not?
I'd love to run OS X as guest OS on my dev machine (not Apple) to test web pages on OS X Safari instead of powering up the old MacBook.
Yes, it's webkit and I can use Chrome but still some form elements render differently.
Comment RTFA (Score 1) 327
If you call compiled Objective-C interpreted... Monotouch will convert mono-style C# to Objective-C and then compile it.
Comment Re:Launch Times? (Score 1) 327
I'm working in the
I haven't used Winforms or WPF either.
What I am using is anomymous types, lambda expressions and other sweet stuff that makes coding a fun thing to do for a living.
How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? 276
jammag writes "Bruce Perens, who wrote the original licensing rules for Open Source software in 1997, notes that there are a sprawling 73 open source licenses currently in existence. But he identifies an essential four — well, actually just two — that developers, companies, and individuals need. In essence, he cuts through the morass and shows developers, in particular, how to protect their work. (And yes, he favors GPL3 over GPL2.) For his own coding work, he's fond of the 'sharing with rules' license, which stays true to the Open Source ethos of shared code yet also enables him to get paid by companies who use it in their commercial products."
Submission + - Is Curry the Cure for Cancer and Alzheimer's? (inventorspot.com)
deepcleanfun writes: "Curcumin, a polyphenolic compound found in the "curry spice" Tumeric, has been shown to have beneficial effects against cancerous tumors and combats the advance of Alzheimer's disease. The compound breaks down quickly after being eaten, however, so Japanese scientists are creating longer lasting synthetic versions."
Submission + - DIY Laptop *literally* from scratch!
Brietech writes: Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. It runs a self-hosted development environment, allowing the user to write and edit programs in "Chris++" on the machine, and then compile and run them. The carpentry looks like it could use some work, but it's a neat project!
Submission + - Google Searching
Anonymous Coward writes: "It appears that Google has taken steps to make smaller blogs harder to search.
First, when you do a general search, it does not include a 'More results from X' (in other words, a site search) option unless the site is large enough. This is different to how it used to be because my blog used to get this function, which was great for searching for stuff within it quickly.
Next, you can try to do a specific 'site search' on your blog. Then what Google does is it finds the post, but the associated link directs you back to the front page of the blog.
I don't know why it would do this except to suppress the contribution from obscure voices???"
