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Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" 909

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @03:52PM from the when-smart-people-clash dept.

The Slashdolt writes "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer can send them to the new maintainer.'" A response to a subsequent post on the list makes it quite clear that he is serious.

Comment Easy Git (Score 1) 346

by amundson on Saturday January 10, 2009 @11:57AM (#26398637) Attached to: Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies?

I've been using git personally for about a year now and have finally reached the point where I am ready to get the rest of my group to adopt it for our work. The tool I am recommending to help with the early git learning curve is Easy Git, http://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/. Easy Git (eg) is a very thin wrapper around git. It provides clear and suggestions for git usage. Unlike other porcelains, you can trivially switch between eg and git at any time. I think Easy Git can improve the initial git experience for many potential git users.

Distributed Compilation, a Programmer's Delight 60

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 14, 2008 @12:36PM from the less-time-for-wacraft dept.

cyberpead writes in with a Developerworks article on the open source tool options that can help speed up your build process by distributing the process across multiple machines in a local area network.

Feed Wired: NASA Weighing Emergency Repairs to Damaged Shuttle (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday August 13, 2007 @12:12PM

Endeavour will spend some extra time at the International Space Station while ground control assesses the damage done to the shuttle's heat shield during liftoff last week.

Feed news.com: Google Maps now includes traffic in drive time (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:52PM

Blog: New Google Maps feature offers estimated driving time including traffic congestion.

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 released. (kde.org)

Submitted by

dbhost

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @10:08AM

dbhost writes: "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in this article is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also according to the announcement konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."

Submission + - Winnie Wrote a Math Book

Submitted by SoyChemist on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:50AM

SoyChemist writes: Hollywood is not known for providing a wealth of positive female role models. Danica McKellar, the actress that played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing, has written a math book for teenage girls. Math Doesn't Suck is in the style of a teen magazine. It even includes a horoscope, cute doodles of shoes and jewelry, and testimonials from attractive young career women that use math at work. It focuses on fractions and pre-algebra and uses mnemonics like calling a reciprocal a "refliprocal", because you just take the fraction and flip it upside down. Wired interviewed McKellar about the new book and her crusade to eliminate the achievement gap between boys and girls in math courses. McKellar graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA. While studying there, she co-authored a proof and presented it at a conference. After she and Mayim Bialik — star of Blossom and a PhD in neuroscience — appeared in a 20/20 episode about intellectual actresses, several literary agents came knocking on her door.

Feed New Scientist: Black Death casts a genetic shadow over England (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @09:13AM

The English are less genetically diverse than in the past - and plague in the Middle Ages is the most likely cause

Comment Maxima is your best bet (Score 4, Interesting) 605

by amundson on Monday December 13, 2004 @09:47PM (#11078032) Attached to: Open Source Math Software For Education?

I lead the Maxima project, http://maxima.sourceforge.net/. Maxima is a full-featured GPL'd computer algebra system under active development. We don't hear much from people who want to use Maxima for high school mathematics, but we would welcome the input.

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