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One of the fathers of the C programming language, after a life of huge contribution to the computer science world dies at age 70. The second death of a hugely important person in technology in the last couple of weeks…
I found this on hackaday – these hackers are awesome! – built / modified their own instruments for use in playing sweet electronic music. Please see the original source for more… it’s amazing…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuunY8BTqNs
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
-Apple Inc.
Firefox 4 was just released, and what it lacks for feature and ui upgrades, it MORE than makes up for in optimization. Firefox has notoriously been a major memory hog, especially when loading up many tabs containing various media types and javascript and such. this just changed.
with huge performance improvements, and in my (not very scientific) test, which included looking at how much memory was being taken up by the previous version on my desktop with my 40 some tabs that I already had open (was about 5gb), killed firefox, upgraded to 7, and restored the preveous sessions, waited a a minute for the tabs to load, and took another look… this time it was only using up about 1.5gb o_O
I’m particularly impressed with this new version… looks the same, works so much faster.
The new version of Fedora was released today sporting gnome 3.0 integration (with completely redesigned UI), much improved btrfs support, and the latest versions of much of the other standard linux packages that make this distribution fine. It’s far from my personal favorite (I never really liked RPM/yum myself and many of the system files aren’t where they belong on a normal linux system), but it’s a huge improvement over previous iterations.
