Coding Relic

Earlier today Louis Gray posted 20 Halloween Scares to Put Fear Into Every Google Fan . I left a few more as a comment on that post, and mad...

Fiber optic strands have a central core of material with a high refractive index surrounded by a jacket of material with a slightly lower ...

Dear Twitter, Idea: Longer prose via Tweet fragmentation and reassembly. Implementation can be considered complete once it has reinvented ...

A system which stays up for weeks or months at a time needs to monitor various facets of its operation to alert an operator if something unu...

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, 1924 - 2010

As it was located near the center of the US auto industry, there was an extensive automotive program at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbo...

Spanning Tree: L2 protocol to transform complete network failure due to topology loop into a never-ending series of more subtle failures. ...

"Excuse me? Is this for an iPhone or Android app?"

Peerritation [peer-i-tay-shun] (noun) : Unreasonable hostility felt toward the subject of the last peer review left to be written. "...

Something is wonky with twitter's search function. In May 2010 twitter search started returning results for keywords in the original, u...

Peerrihelion [peer-rê-heel-yên] (noun) : The point at which 50% of requested peer reviews are complete.

One of gcc's more obscure features is -finstrument-functions. It was implemented by Cygnus Solutions , presumably as part of a contract ...

D_NOTIFY is a facility in the Linux 2.4 kernel to monitor a directory for changes. It will send the monitoring application a signal when fil...

I think this drive would be even luckier if it were 888.8 GB.

I get up very early in the morning, typically around 4am. The house is pitch black, so when I open my computer it vaporizes the top layer of...