When git appeared for the first time, I was convinced that I don’t need it. It seemed that git is good for large and distributed projects, like kernel. While my own needs where much more modest – manage a project with couple of dozen files and perhaps a couple of contributors at most.
Couple of years [...]

What is the most frequently used piece of software on your computer? Here’s one program that holds one of the highest place in my list of most frequently used programs. I am talking about… bash.
In case you don’t know, this is the program behind large portion of the Linux command line. It is the program [...]

This question is especially relevant after yesterday’s fiasco. I ran into an article whose name is exactly Is desktop Linux too fragmented to succeed?
The article argues that the fragmentation is what keeping Linux Desktop from beating Mac OS and even Windows. It is because the effort to create Linux desktop is scattered across multiple distribution, [...]

Once every year or so, I get so frustrated with Windows Desktop that I decide to install Linux. I am a big fun of Ubuntu Linux. I use it for many things, this includes a server platform for this web-site. So most natural choice for me was to try Ubuntu 9.04, the latest version. I [...]

In this article I cover in depth Python’s optparse module. It presents most useful recipes and is a good handbook when parsing command line options in a Python program.

Table of contents
Introduction
What 64-bit support mean?
What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway?
General purpose registers
What additional registers good for?
So how good 64-bit really is?
What about OS and software?
Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it?
How about Linux?

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Many wonder what is the real difference between 64-bit and 32-bit [...]

Table of contents
Introduction
What 64-bit support mean?
What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway?
General purpose registers
What additional registers good for?
So how good 64-bit really is?
What about OS and software?
Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it?
How about Linux?
Introduction
The obvious
Memory leaks
Hibernation
The less obvious
I/O cache
Bottom line

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This short article deals with [...]

Introduction
I decided to write this review for two reasons. First of all, although there are so many reviews out there, no one has tracked the device and its development or evolution for over a year. I did. Also, there is a personal story of using Irex Technologies Iliad that I would like to tell.
History
I started [...]