Tanner Swett (What Colour are y…): If I'm not mistaken, there's already a word for the concept of Colour: "provenance". Matt (IDSgrep 0.1): True, although I'm not sure it's all that much different from other languages. Very few languages ha… Axel (IDSgrep 0.1): Somewhat off-topic remark - the Wikipedia article "Koto (instrument)" has this sentence:
The characte… beleester (What Colour are y…): That's pretty much like Monolith. Here, the intent is still obvious from how it's distributed. If y… Tim (What Colour are y…): A very interesting read for one who is neither a computer scientist nor a lawyer.
An idea I had, th… nichole (SOPA/PIPA protest…): I'm assuming you've heard of the "Protect Children from Online Pornographers" act.
Orwell is rolling…
Disabling Ctrl-Shift-Underscore font resize in Konsole Why is it that all my KDE-related postings seem to be about disabling annoying user interface misfeatures? Today's has to do with the Ctrl-Shift-Underscore (Ctrl-Shift-_)
Fixing the JED dealbreakers There are many things I like about the JED text editor, and for a number of years it has been my preferred editor for working on C code. However, it has a number of misfea
How much does a sheet of paper weigh? A standard sheet of laser-printer paper of the usual thickness, either US "letter" size or international "A4" size, weighs 4.5 grams. That means 100 sheets weighs almost e
Letter names (First posted in January 2003) From time to time I want spellings for the names of the letters in the Latin alphabet. Some, like "aitch" are fairly well known; others aren