I've had one particularly scrupulous person ask whether reprinting things that I've written on Slashdot is acceptable. I consider any content I've written freshly for Slashdot to be public domain -- it'd be nice (though not a requirement) for you to attribute me (as 0x0d0a on Slashdot). You can use what I've written here however you'd like.
I'm putting this in my journal instead of a Slashdot post because the lameness filter keeps eating my Slashdot post. If you have a response, please just respond to my Slashdot post.
I was empirically analyzing the gcc 3.3.3 optimizer a couple of days ago. Some interesting points:
Currently, the color model used on workstation computers is very lacking in dynamic range. It cannot reach levels that are nearly bright enough. The real world contains sun sparkling on the water, car headlights, and the outdoors. Currently, a normal computer environment can only reproduce the brightness of a sheet of paper. This is a blocking issue to producing realistic virtual worlds and images.
As mentioned here, one security problem with passwords is accidently typing one's password into the username field when logging into a system. This can be a problem if the password is being entered in an environment where other people are watching the screen.
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I know of no distros that grant a user ownership of part of the hierarchy beneath their home directory. An example of this would make
Why is this important?
Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
