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Don’t go berserk on any settings which you think may “solve” the problem;
Do a df -h to see whether your /home partition is full;
Do compress your mails and chat logs;
Don’t be foolish to think that chmod 400 mylogs.tar.bz2 protects them from rm -rf when you try to delete the uncompressed logs;
Do have a backup ready […]

By wondering whether machines could think Alan Turing laid one of the foundations of today’s computing science. Automata are everywhere, even the machine you’re sitting at right now could be drawn as a diagram with states and transitions, but couldn’t the same diagrams be drawn for the universe itself..?

Versioning systems are used everywhere, but can’t they be made smarter? This little article gives a view about how taking advantage of the parsability of the repository contents could save time and provide detailed information on repository contents in an instant.

I am a computing science student. One day I will get a degree and… what then? Quite a long time I had the feeling that I wasn’t actually learning anything useful and that studying was a waste of time. Sure, quite a lot of subjects were interesting, I did learn to program, but… all the […]

Everyone seems to have one. Children get them for their birthdays (at least, quite a lot teenagers seem to these days), fellow students get them from their parents or pay them from their jobs. Laptops are popular. Wireless networking is popular and the people with (or those who are planning to buy) a laptop can’t […]