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Microsoft granted patent for...Page Up Page Down

08/24/2008  
Relevance: 6.61
If patenting the obvious is considered something of an art form in the world of IT, then Microsoft is undoubtedly an old master. The Page Up Page Down patent it has been granted would seem to confirm this...
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Dynamic Content - Page Failure Local Action

07/16/2008  
Relevance: 6.11
Once again we look at the same critical error that is detected at the menu page start up. However, this time"Local" means no redirection to an external error page. The process is similar with a good portion of the code unaltered. Nonetheless, there are several significant differences, the reporting of the exception is immediate and the message is placed on the running web page template. Regarding the latter, the message resides where the menu listing would have appeared. This results in a smoother execution with less likelihood of confusion.
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Secrets of the man command

09/08/2007  
Relevance: 5.89
The most referenced and most often used command on any Linux distribution is man, which lets users read the manual pages of other commands. Here are a couple of less well-known but useful commands that let you bookmark a position within a man page, and test a command you read from the man page without closing the page.
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Connect Specification versus Man Page

09/22/2007  
Relevance: 5.81
Ulrich Dreppernoted a difference between the Linuxconnect(2) man page and the POSIX specification. The former states,"connectionless sockets may dissolve the association by connecting to an address with the sa_family member of sockaddr set to AF_UNSPEC." The latter reads,"if address is a null address for the protocol, the socket's peer address shall be reset." Ulrich explained that he preferred the description in the Linux man page, but the Linux kernel seems to actually follow the POSIX specification,"is this functionality which got lost over time? Or is the man page wrong and this never was the case? Is this a worthwhile change?"
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LSD Man Page. More Linux/Unix Humor

07/20/2008  
Relevance: 5.80
Humorous and interesting twist on the standard man page :)
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Preview hyperlinks with Interclue

08/21/2007  
Relevance: 5.77
Interclue is a Firefox extension that lets you preview whatever a hyperlink on a page is pointing to. Unlike other link previewers, Interclue doesn't just display a tiny replica of what's hiding under the link. It uses algorithms to intelligently construct a summary of the target page and displays it in a window with lots of other information and statistics about the page.
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Firefox extensions to bring back the dead

06/16/2008  
Relevance: 5.46
Don't you find it irritating when a Web page you bookmarked or favorited returns a 404 error on a subsequent visit? Or when a Web site is temporarily down? Firefox extensions Resurrect Pages and 404: Page is Not Found? Now it will be! can help in such scenarios. While Resurrect Pages relies on several popular page cache sites, 404: Page is Not Found uses the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive to serve the dead pages. To install each extension, click the shiny green Add to Firefox button on its homepage. After the customary browser restart, you'll find the extension available from the right-click context menu.
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Make your Thunderbird start page a wiki

09/14/2007  
Relevance: 5.42
Every time you launch Thunderbird, you are greeted by a generic start page (unless you've turned that option off). Most of us don't pay much attention to it and navigate straight to the Inbox without giving it a second thought. The start screen is just a simple HTML page, which Thunderbird fetches from the address specified in the application's preferences. Knowing that, you can replace it with something more useful, such as the URL of your Web site or blog -- or you can take it a step further and turn the start screen into a tool that can help to manage your ideas, notes, to-do lists, and more.
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Linux: Page Replacement Design

01/24/2007  
Relevance: 5.40
A university student studying operating systems asked about why the Linux kernel uses two chained lists in its LRU (least recently used) page replacement algorithm. Andrea Arcangeli, whose virtual memory subsystem was merged into the 2.4.10 kernel, explained,"back then I designed it with two lru lists because by splitting the active from the inactive cache allows to detect the cache pollution before it starts discarding the working set." He went on to add,"a page in the inactive list will be collected much more quickly than a page in the active list, so the pollution will be collected more quickly than the working set.
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352 Linux Distributions on one page

12/17/2006  
Relevance: 5.38
This is a cool page with links to 352 Linux Distributions all on the same page.
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