Posts by John

Wolfram Alpha to venture beyond boron nucleus

Also

What is the airspeed of a unladen African swallow

Triangular buttons key to touchscreen typing success - inventor

Rounded buttons

The human eye/brain is very good at estimating the centre of a circle. Why not make round buttons?

Microsoft fortifies Windows 7 kernel with overrun buster

Save the bunnies

Download and run this executable to see the bouncing bunnies.

Microsoft IIS hole fells university server

Use nginx

Replace it with Nginx rather than Apache. It would be interesting to see a comparison of IIS vunerabilitys to Apache, I suspect the number doesn't differ greatly. Both are heavy and slow webservers IMO.

IBM, Sun, Microsoft sink differences on VMs

JavaScript?

He is probably thinking of JavaScript, a language so difficult to build an executable from even fast implementations are actually pretty slow.