Posts by Jonimus

Good news: Samsung's Tizen no longer worst code ever. Bad news: It's still pretty awful

Reminds me of the reports I've heard of EFL's code quality as seen in one of the more famous Daily WTF posts https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/2

Zilog reveals very, very distant heir to the Z80 empire

Re: z80 and ti83

TI's latest replacement for the TI-83, the TI-84+CE continues the Zilog heritage by using their updated eZ80 calculator as its main CPU.

Oculus backtracks on open software promise

Re: Come on guys

Except according to most reviews I've seen the HTC Vive is the better headset and GearVR which they do support is the most likely to cause sickness, well aside from Google cardboard.

Something's going on with Google Reader but nobody knows what

NewsBlur - a Better FOSS RSS Reader.

I've personally moved on to NewsBlur which has a rather nice Android App and is completely opensource so even if they go tits up you can easily host it yourself if needed.

AMD announces 'world's first commercially available 5GHz CPU'

AMD's plan to beat Intel.

If you can't beat at IPC, throw more cores in at a higher clock?

The sad part is that some workloads that strategy would actually work, but when Intel has chips that use almost half the power and win in single threaded performance its hard to say AMD is the way to go.

Twitter open sources MySQL enhancements

MySQL - An old word meaning, "I've never heard of postgresql."

The Reg guide to Linux, part 1: Picking a distro

No Love for Arch Linux?

Seriously, Arch's following has been increasing for years and has an extremely large userbase, why was it not mentioned? I have been using it for years after I got tired of how little I learned with Ubuntu. I switched to Arch because I wanted to customize my system and now it is mine from the ground up.