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Is Linux Documentation Lacking? 769

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:18AM from the hackers-and-english-don't-always-mix dept.

eldavojohn writes "A number of blog posts are surfacing that are calling out the helpful open source community on their documentation. No, not the documentation for the highly skilled technical people, but the documentation from beginner to apprentice. A two-part series by Carla Schroeder lists bad documentation as 'Linux Bug #1' and advises users to use Google as the documentation. We've discussed before some of open source's documentation being out of date. Is it really as bad as these blogs paint it? Has it come down to using Google before a man page?"

Submission + - 2007 Ig Nobel awards announced (msn.com)

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prostoalex

on Thursday October 04, 2007 @11:32PM

prostoalex writes: "The annual Ig Noble awards by Annals of Improbable Research were announced tonight. The winners included the scientists who discovered that impotence drugs help with jetlag recovery, "a Dutch researcher who conducted a census of all the creepy-crawlies that share our beds, Spanish scientists who found that rats sometimes could not distinguish between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards, an Australian woman who documented the indexing problems caused by the word "the", a Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung, and a Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers," MSNBC says."

Comment Re:Does a case matter (Score 5, Informative) 369

by Silwenae on Monday May 29, 2006 @06:56PM (#15426116) Attached to: Treasures or Trash, 5 PC Cases for Gamers

The case absolutely does matter - but not for the reasons mentioned above (lights and looks).

It's all about the cooling - get the right fan placement and air flow in the right place and that's what matters. When you're running an AMD processor faster than a 4200 with an Nvidia 7800 SLI rig, it will matter that you have the right case to get it cool.

Future of Video Games Outside the Home, DisneyQuest 103

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 29, 2006 @02:24PM from the taking-your-quarters dept.

gatzke writes "Some interesting developments have been coming online with new technology being developed that may lead to new and exciting gaming outside the home. DisneyQuest in Orlando mixes classic / modern video games with virtual reality and interactive games. MagiQuest in Myrtle Beach is an immersive interactive treasure hunt environment with a simple wand interface."

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