junkbit

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junkbit··on Using the Google Cr-48 for Coding

If you run "Shell In A Box" on the server you can browse to a full bash prompt in a browser tab. It even has Tab-completion and works with ncurses apps too.

You just run a tiny daemon and then connect to it such as https://192.168.1.1:4200

http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

junkbit··on This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography

junkbit··on This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access

August 1991: WWW goes live; Linux Kernel announced; USSR collapsed; SNES English release; Terminator 2 was in the cinemas and Smells Like Teen Spirit had its radio début. What a month

junkbit··on This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access

Hmm read/write web browser/editor? So Web 0.1 was Web 2.0

junkbit··on Unladen Follow (a tool to cut the fat out of your Twitter stream)

"This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 17 times"

haha

junkbit··on Why are variables "i" and "j" used for counters?

TODAY IS EVERYBODY TALK LIKE FORTRAN DAY

junkbit··on Go compiler now committed to gcc mainline (to be gcc 4.6)

"Release gccgo in gcc is going to introduce a difficulty for Go programmers who use it. The Go language continues to evolve, but gcc 4.6 will not. That means that people using gcc 4.6 will be using a language which will be increasingly out of date. I don’t think there is any way to avoid that problem at this stage. The language will become more stable over time."

junkbit··on Kinect + Chrome * MIT / Minority Report = DepthJS

http://vimeo.com/17180651

Nice to see them running Ubuntu

junkbit··on Some powerful commands for Linux

'cd -' go back to previous directory. Genius! How did I not know this?

junkbit··on Life in Text Mode

You can also control virtualbox from the command line such as:

VBoxManage startvm "Your Machine Name"

http://andunix.net/info/virtualbox/cli

junkbit··on Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C/GNUStep

To be fair, V8 kicked of an arms race that has benefited the whole industry.

junkbit··on Facebook Messages: The Worst Thing That Ever Happened

Facebook also censors your private messages if you link to a torrent, even a linux iso.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/facebook-link-blockin...

junkbit··on WidgetBlock for Google Chrome: All your widgets are belong to us.

It wasn't a mistake. A google engineer pointed it out on the chrome bug tracker saying you get this feature for free now with webkit

junkbit··on Implementation of an Operating System in ML - PDF

Great video. I don't pretend to understand functional languages but the ideas about memory layout and DSLs for r/w of Ethernet frames seemed really elegant.

junkbit··on Britain poised for third phase of industrial revolution

He would have made a better argument by using ARM as an example of developing British IP and licensing it to others to manufacture.

junkbit··on Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland

Nvidia is really pushing CUDA and OpenCL these days. If you follow the developer conferences the graphics feels like less of a priority to them.

junkbit··on Unity on Wayland

This is great news. I've been following Wayland on Phoronix and I was hoping Google was going to do this when they announced Chrome OS

junkbit··on The Times UK Lost 4 Million Readers To Its Paywall Experiment

EDIT: Sorry if I sounded whiny, but you had to click on the link so a smiley face would have spoiled the joke

junkbit··on The Times UK Lost 4 Million Readers To Its Paywall Experiment

Here's a link from The Times front page with their own take on the numbers

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/media/arti...

junkbit··on How to Identify a Programmer's Personality by Just Watching Their Keyboard Moves

Yes I am interested in the work around using the cadence and rhythm of typing a password as an additional ID. Apparently it is quite distinctive, given a long enough sample.

junkbit··on Schneier on Security: Cargo Security

British never discus sources or capabilities.

junkbit··on Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity

I just installed Unity in Maverick and it now comes preloaded with a workspace button that zooms out like Gnome-Shell to show you 4 desktops.

Also, gnome-terminal was one of the default apps on the bar

junkbit··on Russian Hacker Builds 70 Terabyte Home Computer

Yes the Seagate 3TB that was also just released has a lot of heat problems. If you are looking for 3TB go for the WD

junkbit··on The End of x86?

The last time I had an architecture issue was with a SNES emulator that had pieces hard coded in 32bit Asm.

Pretty rare these days. Maybe things like VirtualBox too.

junkbit··on The End of x86?

Yes, they don't disable 1 core out of spite, it is because of the difficulty/cost of a high yield

The situation is even worse for graphics cards

junkbit··on London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux

Also complete control over your own future without being beholden to a 3rd party.

junkbit··on [dead]

What? I'm not crying. It's the bright lights

junkbit··on Google closes Issue 9

"Status: Unfortunate"

junkbit··on Man jailed over computer password refusal

The one thing we are good at is SIGINT.

We may have a stifling bureaucracy and an overstretched military, but at least the British Foreign Office actually has local knowledge and people who speak the language.

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