My comment on a recent BBC News article "Universities push for higher fees":
Read more...I'm a university student from a low-income background, and having started my course just after the last raise in fees took effect, I knew from the beginning that I'd be finishing with £32k of debt ...
Like many people, I've found the new things in the Linux desktop environment world - i.e. GNOME 3 and Unity - to be more of a hindrance than a help. For this reason I've switched to Xubuntu, which allows me to stick to my previous multi-window multi-desktop multi-monitor workflow ...
Read more...Recently I've been working on a program that will let me do a full-text search of my 1500-file digital video library. The result is something I've unimaginatively called "VDB", short for "Video Database".
This release doesn't do much; you can add your library of video files, and ...
Read more...Yesterday I found out first-hand how using a dynamically typed language can get you into trouble in unexpected ways whilst writing unit tests for CSF (my PHP framework).
Take a look at this code---what do you think it should do?
$foo = 'bar';
var_dump(isset($foo['xyz']));
var_dump($foo['xyz']);
Most ...
Read more...Before this sounds like a rant, I'd like to first say that I think PulseAudio is a very nice concept, from a technical perspective. It's about time Linux got a manageable sound subsystem, and some of the features---such as network streaming and synchronised playback---are quite impressive.
However, one ...
Read more...It's been no real secret that the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) has been Microsoft's answer to Java. Garbage collection, bytecode compilation, large set of core libraries, it's all there. But there is a problem that I've encountered recently: distribution size and install base.
A fairly ...
Read more...I've just acquired a new work laptop (Asus N550JK-CM604H) and for my job the first step was getting my preferred Linux distro (Xubuntu 14.04 LTS) up and running on it. However, the laptop is newer than the distro release, so I didn't expect it to all be ...
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