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  • Jun
  • 05
  • 2008

Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest | Design Showcase, Events | Smashing Magazine

Design a style switcher and win an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display. Style switchers are used to provide users with a choice of layouts, fonts, colors and views they can use to adapt the design to their personal needs.

Fast CSS Style Switching with PHP Style Sheet Switcher (v1.1) (DynamicDrive) Mootools Styleswitcher Designing a Style Switcher Introducing UDASS Invasion of the Body Switchers Time-based Style Theme Switcher Layout Changer…

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  • Jun
  • 04
  • 2008

So What is a Direct-Threaded, Register-Based, Bytecode Interpreter Anyway?

David Mandelin delves into three of the design features in WebKit's new JavaScript interpreter SquirrelFish: the bytecode interpreter, direct-threaded interpreter dispatch and using register-based bytecode interpreter.

Overall, when you look across instructions, I think the total amount of operand addressing computation is about the same. The stack version distributes it across more instructions. The stack version might be able to save a few by having special…

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  • May
  • 16
  • 2008

Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7

New data on Comcasts interference with BitTorrent traffic shows that the company misinformed the FCC this February. Comcast has always argued that BitTorrent upstream traffic was only blocked during periods of heavy network traffic, this turns out to be a lie.

What fuckin’ douche bags. It angers me much when our government lets companies like this run ramped and do as they please with little to no regulations. As a pirate, if we were to lie to the FCC or in court, that’d be perjury….

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  • May
  • 08
  • 2008

Flipping the Linux switch: Cairo-Dock is pain free eye candy

It’s a weird phenomenon. Nearly every computer platform steals another one’s look. Vista gets accused of trying to look too much like OS X. Linux desktops get accused of trying to look like Vista (except when they’re accused of ripping off OS X). There is the Avant Window Navigator, and though it does the trick quite nicely.

Right, which is why I said that x86 installs are fairly straightforward, and you click on the .deb files.However, as stated (at the paragraph starting: A 64-bit OS makes it a little stickier), a 64 bit version of Ubuntu will NOT run an…

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2008

The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit

Workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones — and unhappy with Windows — are demanding Macs at the office. And bosses are saying yes more often than ever before. Is business ready? Is Apple?

What's less obvious is that the enthusiasm is starting to spill over into the corporate market. It's a people's revolution, of sorts, with workers increasingly pressing their employers to let them use Macs in the office. In a survey of…

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  • Apr
  • 09
  • 2008

An Open Source Class-Five Telephony Switch

Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks.

FreeSwitch will most likely shine on the backend. One application will be to help business reduce calling costs by directing calls to the cheapest carrier. Ken Rice, a voice consultant and owner of tollfreegateway.com, a voice termination service,…

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