Macworld
A Fusion Drivegives you the best of two worlds: the high storage capacity of a traditional platter-based hard drive, and the speed boost of a solid-state drive, without you having to manually manage files. Apple offers the Fusion Drive as build-to-order…
15 November 2012Slashdot
Emscripten is an LLVM-based compiler from dozens of languages to JavaScript (previously demoed as a repl and used to port Doom to the browser), and some recent changes have made it a bit faster, and allowed it to compile itself. Some highlights include a…
13 November 2012Planet Mozilla
If your like me then your time is important so any boost in page loading can net you major time-saving and recently I switched back to Firefox from Chromium and one of the reasons I had left Firefox was I felt that Chromium had superior page loading…
13 November 2012Planet Ubuntu
In my earlier post I suggested enabling HTTP Pipelining to boost page load time performance in Firefox 16.0.2 and I figured it was important to also do some “real world testing” so I did exactly that by loading google.com five times with the cache cleared…
13 November 2012LWN.net
Parsix GNU/Linux is a Debian derivative distribution with a focus on desktop performance and time-based releases. The 4.0 release is available now; see the release notesfor details. "Parsix GNU/Linux 4.0 (code name Gloria) brings tons of updated packages,…
13 November 2012Planet Mozilla
The Firefox Developer Tools team is working hard to improve the lives of developers targeting Firefox on Android and Firefox OS. We’ve made a lot of progress: our debugger was built with remote protocol support from the beginning, and our web console was…
13 November 2012Planet Mozilla
12 November 2012Planet GNOME
For a website for work, I wanted to make sure the web guy writes valid HTML code. I found a validation middleware for Django, which uses tidy. But the website is in HTML5, so the normal tidy doesn’t validate it properly. Luckily, there’s tidy-html5, a…
11 November 2012Slashdot
Esther Schindler writes "The job of dealing with an under-performing employee doesn't end when the culprit is shown the door. Everyone focuses on security tasks, after you fire the idiot, such as changing passwords, but that's just one part of the To Do…
9 November 2012Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
Subscribe Sign in Sign up or login to join the discussions! Sign up to comment and more Sign up Best of both worlds: Setting up Wi-Fi for iOS on 2.4 and 5GHz Each band has pros and cons, so here's how to use them together. For a while, it seemed…
9 November 2012