"Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level."
to introduce the CVS basics to CVS novices (in 2 minutes) and refresh and improve the knowledge of people who already know CVS. It's a CVS tutorial, a quick start guide but it's told like a story with lots of examples.
the octomatics-project is about a new number system which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system. the name comes from the mixture of 'octal' and 'mathematics'.
For the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project of the University of California at Irvine, a method for representing Greek characters in ASCII was devised, called Beta Codes.
A Multi-Seat Linux Box: This tutorial shows how to build a multi-head, multi-user Linux box using a recent distribution of Linux and standard USB keyboards and mice. Xorg calls this arrangement a "multi-seat" system.
...you should be cautious about including C hackers in your projects, as they are often the ones who have the most trouble adapting to the abstraction-based form of software development that object technology embodies... Bertrand Meyer
Our society is organized around a scarcity economy to such an extent that many people believe 'scarcity' and 'economy' mean the same thing. Even if it were true, different economies deal with differently scarce things.
Israel as being the United States’ “cop on the beat” in the Middle East. - Why do you hate America? - Have you ever been to a Wal-Mart? - immediate withdrawal? (Iraq)
In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there’s a 99.9% chance of two people matching.
A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.
explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work.
Weekend Project Podcast: Make simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket.
by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes "I've been writing on CPU technology here at Ars for almost five years now, and during that time I've done my best to communicate computing concepts in as plain and accessible a manner as possible while still retaining some level
"In my opinion, good knife skills are an essential component of being a good cook. And good knife skills are not particularly difficult for the average person to learn."