Coding Relic

Jeff Atwood recently suffered a catastrophic loss of data of his long-running blog Coding Horror . The site was running on a virtual machin...

There was a pretty spectacular accident in Jamaica last night, where a 737 skidded off the runway and broke into pieces. Check the picture ...

Note the lack of the "HD" logo on the dust cover? Santa must have remarkable compression technology to fit the entire 1998 naugh...

Slashdenfreude [ slash -den-froi-duh] (noun) : To take joy in the slashdotting of others.

This article about multicore programming techniques is pure comedic gold. In particular, threads suffer badly from 'race conditions...

Behold: the Blaupunkt CD50. Perhaps "behold" is too pretentious for a basic car stereo, but it is the topic of today's sc...

In 1st grade I could not see how a dime could possibly be worth more than a nickel. The nickel was bigger, after all; it should obviously b...

I once worked on a system where one module was developed outside using Linux/x86 systems, brought in-house, and compiled for Linux/PowerPC. ...

I recently mailed a package using a Pitney Bowes postage meter. After calculating the postage there is a screen listing restrictions of ite...

Amazon's Kindle software version 2.3 increased battery life from 4 days to 7 days; quite an improvement. Only the Kindle 2 (*) model u...

foursquare is one of the early entrants in a coming wave of location-based web services. Foursquare catalogs a huge list of venues in 100 c...

Scientists today announced the creation of a new isotope in the "island of stability" beyond Bismuth in the periodic table. It has...

There have been issues with the autofocus on the Motorola Droid phone, which suddenly resolved themselves this morning and led to speculati...

Setting up a phishing site: $25 Hiring a botnet to deliver spam: $0.0008/recipient Forgetting to attach the malware: priceless

A bit of news got buried by other massive acquisitions this week: Cavium Networks acquired MontaVista Software for $50 million. The offe...