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Linux is whatever you want it to be

rengolin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:37 +0000

Normally the Linux Magazine has great articles. Impartial, informative and highly technical. Unfortunately, not always. In a recent article, some perfectionist zealot stated that Ubuntu makes Linux...

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has arrived

rengolin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:00:50 +0000

The Wikimedia Foundation has just launched the first release of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I hope the next version they’ll use sub-etha to update the contents automatically. It...

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Gtk example

rengolin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:22:44 +0000

Gtk, the graphical interface behind Gnome, is very simple to use. It doesn’t have an all-in-one IDE such as KDevelop, which is very powerful and complete, but it features a simple and...

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Start-ups

rengolin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:05:54 +0000

To start a new idea and make it profitable is much more of an art than logic. There is no recipe, no fail-proof tactic. The most successful entrepreneurs are either lucky or have a good gut-feeling....

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SLC 0.2.0

rengolin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:27:07 +0000

My pet compiler is now sufficiently stable for me to advertise it as a product. It should deal well with the most common cases if you follow the syntax, as there are some tests to assure minimum...

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The LLVM compilation infrastructure

rengolin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:33:53 +0000

I’ve been playing with LLVM (Low-Level Virtual Machine) lately and have produced a simple compiler for a simple language. The LLVM compilation infrastructure (much more than a simple compiler...

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40 years and full of steam

rengolin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:26:41 +0000

Unix is turning 40 and BBC folks wrote a small article about it. What a joy to remember when I started using Unix (AIX on an IBM machine) around 1994 and was overwhelmed by it. By that time, the only...

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Online gaming experience

rengolin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:14:41 +0000

Why is it so hard for the game industry to get the online experience? I understand the media industry being utterly ignorant about how to make sense of the internet, but gaming is about pure fun,...

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Wireless pains

rengolin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:27:11 +0000

One of the good characteristics of human beings is to be able to understand other people’s pains. To impersonate them, feel what they feel and know how bad/good to them was something you did....

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Lame excuse

rengolin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:45:19 +0000

While EA seems to have understood how to play the game, the Swedish court (and the European legal system) not only fails to get it, but also came with a lame excuse to reject the pirate bay...

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