See: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1845 http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard for a call-for-action...
See the forwarded message below for the question. You can find my response here: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2009-February/002161.html ...
... This seems a bit contradictory. And who would be happy with such a licence and not with, say, the X11L? ... I see. ... Well, I have yet to hear of an...
A bit late, but better late than never: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/optimizing-code-for-speed/ This is an essay I wrote about optimising...
Today I was debugging a development branch of Freecell Solver (I see Muli is preparing the graggers) and had to deal with a problem that the scanning dump ...
Hi all! Today I had to some work on one of my open-source projects on Windows. After using the default console window for a while, I thought I wanted to die....
... On Windows, I usually use cygwin, and run "zsh" as my console. This not only do tab completion and history the way I want it, but is basically the full...
... Well, zsh is not a console - it is a shell. Generally, you open a console window and on top of it run a shell like bash, zsh, Win32's cmd.exe, etc. The ...
... I have heard rumors that both 'lynx' and 'tomcat' are projects that can trace their ancestry to the 'cat' project. Can you comment on that? Also, is it...
... Of course they are. All the Mac OS X releases, which are named after the great cats ("Tiger", "Leopard", "Lion", etc.) also originated by concatenating...
I recently spotted this on Freshmeat.net: http://www.valentina-db.com/ It's a database server that claims to be very fast. It's object-relational. Here's what...
Hi all! Tomorrow (6-May) Herzelinux (the Herzeliya Open-source club) will meet to hear Gilad Ben-Yossef's talk about "The Google Android Phone Stack". It will...
Spotted on LWN.net: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ Reading from it: {{{{{{{{{ psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on running...
Hi all! I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication...
... Hi all! I should note that the link below now only contains an archive of version 2.27.3 which is more up-to-date and fixes some problems. I should also...
The following paper is a nice summary of opinions about this classical computer science problem: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf And as I was...
Omer Zak
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Do you mean how to verify a solution for TSP in polynomial time? If that's the case, you better look at the TSP as a decision problem: "A variant of the...
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... Yes. ... Is the procedure of reduction executable in polynomial time? ... Why? My question is simple. Given a purported solution to the Travelling Salesman...
Omer Zak
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Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club invites everyone to a talk by Yaron Meiry (Sawyer) about "Programming Red Flags" - on Sunday, 28-June-2009. (Notice the ...
Hi all! This is a last day reminder that we will have a meeting at Telux tomorrow (Sunday, 28-June-2009) at 18:30 about "Programming Red Flags". More ...
Hi all! The "Programming Red Flags" meeting had a high attendance, and was generally very successful. Thanks to all the people who came and special thanks to...