Stories by mjturner
> Fuelled by Acorn’s innovative ARM RISC processor, the Archimedes or ‘A’ series offer workstation power and spectacular graphics abilities at PC prices. With their place in education already assured, Dick Pountain believes their speed may also guarantee them entry into the business world.
I've always been a fan of discussion on mailing lists - I much prefer them to these new fangled web-based forums.
What are your favourites? I guess I'm looking for those that may not be that well known, but which have good discussion about topics that interest Lobsters users.
To get the ball ...
Be sure to read the whole thread, starting [here](https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg55161.html).
> So it sees the data strip corruption, uses good parity on disk to fix it, writes the fix to disk, recomputes parity for some reason but does it wrongly, and then overwrites...
Not affiliated with the author in any way, just thought some here may be interested.
> The Imposter's Handbook: a compendium of my year-long quest to fill the holes in my CS knowledge. Not a replacement for a degree, not an authoritative source for any of the concepts presented. Just a concise s...
> Programming is hard. Programming correct C and C++ is particularly hard. Indeed, both in C and certainly in C++, it is uncommon to see a screenful containing only well defined and conforming code. Why do professional programmers write code like this? Because most programmers do not have a deep und...
> Surf is a simple, lightweight browser from Suckless Tools, the same people who brought you dmenu and dwm. When compiled and configured right, Surf is incredibly robust and stable, able to handle most websites extremely well, and it has a clean and simple layout without buttons and bars to encroach...
> This document specifies a protocol for clients to efficiently query, fetch, and modify JSON-based data objects, with support for push notification of changes and fast resynchronisation and for out-of-band binary data upload/download.
See also Peter Seebach's comments about the [3rd edition](https://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn3e.html) as well as a [critique](https://spinoza1111.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/in-the-matter-of-herb-schildt-an-analysis-of-c-the-complete-nonsense/) of Seebach's 3rd edition analysis.
From the blurb:
> **m-cli** differs from other mac command line tools in that:
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> * Its main purpose is to manage administrative tasks and do it easier
> * It doesn't install 3rd party tools because it doesn't have dependencies
> * The installation is very easy and doesn't require intervent...
> Judy is a C library that provides a state-of-the-art core technology that implements a sparse dynamic array. Judy arrays are declared simply with a null pointer. A Judy array consumes memory only when it is populated, yet can grow to take advantage of all available memory if desired.
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> Judy's ...
> Why deliver mail over Tor?
> Even if you use TLS for your connections they are opportunistic. Even if you use OpenPGP for your connections, it is relatively easy for someone passively monitoring email traffic to correlate interesting metadata: who is communicating with whom, when and how much. ...