Jeffrey Stedfast: More PulseAudio Problems

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I reinstalled PulseAudio to try and resolve the plethora of problems I’ve been having with it (that and openSUSE 11 doesn’t actually ship th esound daemon anymore, so if I want full audio support I have no choice but…

Jeffrey Stedfast: Debian Language Benchmarks - SumFile

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Since someone brought it up the other day on IRC, I figured I’d take a look at some of the Java vs C# benchmarks where Java was claimed to be faster than C#.Scrolling through the list, there were 3 tests where Java was…

Jeffrey Stedfast: Wouldn’t it be nice if…

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Over the past week, I’ve been spending some time hacking on Evolution again because of my frustration with the current IMAP backend. This got me to wondering. why hasn’t anyone stepped up to the plate and rewritten E…

Jeffrey Stedfast: Calculating the Nearest Power of 2

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The typical implementation for finding the nearest power of 2 for a given value is as follows:static uint32_tnearest_pow (uint32_t num){ uint32_t n = 1; while (n < num) n <<= 1; return n;}This…

Jeffrey Stedfast: How To Survive Poisonous People

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This is an interesting Google Tech Talk about how to survive poisonous people in F/LOSS communities. I probably find it interesting at least in part because there are a couple of very loud poisonous people constantly…

Jeffrey Stedfast: Linux Haters

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Okay, I have to join in and say that I, too, have been enjoying Linux Hater’s Blog these past few days.He makes a lot of good points and I like his humor

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