kinetik | 11 years ago | on: Some light reading on lock-free programming
My understanding was that a lock free algorithm could still wait for an unbounded time, and what you're referring to are called wait free algorithms.
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kinetik | 11 years ago | on: Git v2.2.0 released
A nickel.
kinetik | 13 years ago | on: Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit
In Firefox, open "about:addons" in the location bar, select "Plugins" on the left, then you can disable/remove as necessary.
kinetik | 13 years ago | on: Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit
Original source: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jul/375
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: WebM and WebP Hand Ported to JavaScript for All Browsers
Web APIs for audio are under active development. The W3C has formed a working group where use cases and two specifications (Web Audio API and MediaStream Processing API) are being developed. Chrome and Safari are shipping experimental versions of the Web Audio API now, and Firefox will soon be shipping experimental versions of the MediaStream Processing API (it's available now in a special build). Firefox 4 onwards also includes the simpler Audio Data API. I believe all of these APIs provide sufficient functionality to build the audio portions of media playback with working audio-visual synchronization.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to view-source:
It was moved to the "Web Developer" menu, not removed entirely.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: Why is Windows so slow?
Linux has defaulted to relatime since 2009.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: Full-screen API available in Firefox nightly
It's coming. There's a spec here: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/raw-file/default/mouse-lock....
Implementations for Chrome and Firefox are bug 72754 and bug 633602, respectively.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal
ANGLE[0] goes some way to solving that.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)
So, the next question is: is the container format (MPEG-4 Part 14) patent encumbered?
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: A music synth in 140 bytes of JavaScript
There are only two things wrong with the header: the RIFF chunk size is invalid, and the data chunk size is invalid.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user's first impressions
Firefox does this by default, but its built-in update mechanism is disabled in Ubuntu-shipped versions in favour of Ubuntu's package management.
kinetik | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
Open about:memory and see where the memory is going. And if you think the use is excessive, please file a bug including the about:memory data and any details you know that would aid in reproducing the problem.
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it has an Internet connection
...8 months before the iPhone was released.
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: JQuery.fn.each vs. jQuery.fn.quickEach
As others have mentioned, the page loads a Java applet. That'd be my first guess at the cause of the crash.
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: YouTube Videos Now Served in WebM
This is great to see. Another step forward for the open web.
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: Skype 5 for Mac
HTTP Live Streaming is fairly high latency (2-10 seconds typically), so I very much doubt it's being used for Facetime.
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests
Averaging the results? They probably discard outliers too. Unusually high output is something you'd want to be aware of rather than hiding it in an averaged result.
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: It used to be a star. Now it's a 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond.
The linked article seems to refer to an incorrect star. The correct one (which is also named in the BBC article linked from this article) is BPM 37093: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPM_37093
All in all, the linked article seems like a direct restatement of the BBC article (with errors added), so I recommend you read the BBC article directly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm
kinetik | 15 years ago | on: Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta
Especially so given Apple's early adoption of SSD.
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