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This year
WebKit, Mobile, and Progress | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency
by night.kame
The important takeaway for web developers in all of this is that WebKit is winning and that that is a good thing.
C'est Alex Russell, employé de Google qui nous le dit : HTML 5 on s'en tape, ce qui est important, c'est le monopole de WebKit.
Slow Photoshop? A solution. | Hoefler & Frere-Jones
by sbrothier
Intermittently, Photoshop will start taking EXTRAORDINARY amounts of time to open files, regardless of their size. This problem has persisted from CS2 to CS3, and from a PowerPC to an Intel Mac. The problem is intermittent, seeming to go in long cycles (a few months at a clip), but when it strikes, a 2k file -- or a 100mb one, curiously -- will take upwards of two minutes to open. Also curiously, an open file can be saved and saved again without any performance hit. But saving a new file creates the lag as well, especially loathsome if you're using "Save for Web" a lot.
Storz and Bickel Volcano Herbal Vaporizer
by access2
Herbal vaporizers can be used in smoking cessation, administration of medical marijuana, or a variety of other uses. Instead of heating plant materials to their ignition point and burning them at even higher temperatures, these devices heat the herbs to something just above the boiling point -- about 235 degrees. This not only extracts more of the active component, but does so without producing the harmful -- even toxic -- pyrolytic by-products such as tars and carbon monoxide.
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2008
AQIT
by dpansu
L'association AQIT est née en 2003, de la rencontre de diverses personnalités qui n'étaient pas satisfaites de la manière dont les médias fonctionnaient. Elles étaient préoccupées par l'impact de ce dysfonctionnement sur le débat public et in fine, sur notre démocratie. Nous venions tous d'horizons différents, politiquement ou professionnellement : journaliste, chef d'entreprise, professeur de philosophie et écrivain, intermittent du spectacle, infographiste, cadre… Nous...
2007
Timing and Synchronization in JavaScript
by Hiéroglyphe
& 1 other
Timing issues are the source of some of the most devious bugs in JavaScript applications. Problems that never show up during development might surface when the application is used by an end-user on a slow computer or with low bandwidth. Such issues may also be intermittent and difficult to reproduce.
Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?
by springnet
Twitter scares me. For all its popularity, I see at least three issues: 1) it's a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines.
2006
Airhook -- Reliable, efficient transmission control for networks that suck.
by fakechris
Airhook is a reliable data delivery protocol, like TCP. Unlike TCP, Airhook gracefully handles intermittent, unreliable, or delayed networks. Other features include session recovery, queue control, and delivery status notification.
2005
2004
An Ignition Interlock In Every Car?
by jasontromm
Who are these idiotic lawmakers that come up with these ideas?
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Nagios: Home
by HandySolo
& 12 others
Nagios® is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.
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