A Smackerel of Opinion

Sometimes good things work under the bonnet and you just don't even know about it. The problem is that when good things have been imple...

I've just jumped into the micro blogging fad and signed up with Twitter and Identi.ca. I was told I should check out Gwibber - a cool m...

Compressing files with bzip2 can take a while, especially at the highest compression setting, even when using the faster processor. Nowadays...

How "idle" is an idle Operating System? More specifically, how much I/O is going on when a system is left for about 3 hours doing...