Archive for September, 2009

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

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Moserware: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). via @hook

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Vacation relaxation?

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An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

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Slovenci…

Nakon 30 g.življenja u Sloveniji, Mujo i Haso
zatraže domovnicu.
Kažu im da se svaki pravi Slovenac mora prvo popeti na Triglav.
Tako njih dvojica krenu.
Na pola puta kaže Mujo : Ajde ti bolan sam, pa ponesi i moju
knjižicu i udari pečat na vrhu Triglava. Haso ode.
Vraća se, a samo sebi udario pečat.
“Zašto i meni nisi udario pečat?”
“Ma [...]

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How to Save $1 Trillion a Year with Open Source

Michael Tiemann probably has more experience in making money from free software than anyone. He set up his company Cygnus as far back as 1989, a little while after coming across Richard Stallman’s GNU C Compiler (GCC). He was amazed by its quality, and decided that it must be possible to build a business around [...]

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Real programmers use…

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Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Ladies and gentlemen, your
President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.
via Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile on Vimeo.

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IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly ten times faster than usual when Google’s new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show.
According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) was 9.6 times faster than IE8 on its own. Computerworld ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite three times each [...]

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Shuttleworth: Don’t Give Up the Linux Desktop

From a user-experience perspective, for instance, he said that Linux’s design has been lacking. To that end, Shuttleworth noted that Ubuntu has its own user-experience team that conducts testing with regular people to see how they use software.
But Shuttleworth would like to see the user-experience effort extend beyond Ubuntu.
During his keynote, he extended an invitation [...]

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Balrog Boogie – Diablo Swing Orchestra

Download here (free&legal!)

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