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They are coming!!

After several tries, I have been thinking that the only way to write a lesser than (<) and greater than (>) charecters in LaTeX was adding to the header
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
In fact, if not specified, < will become ¡ and > will become ¿, not very helpful to write HTML/XML code. However, with including the package […]

Click here to download the track (1.3 MB).
 
A funny hackers is called the Free Software Song. It was written, performed and sung by Richard Stallman spontanously; then it became famous and the source code is availabe (Gnu LyliPond); the song has the the tune of Sadi Moma, a Bulgarian dance tune, but several versions […]

Here’s a funny script file that may be ran as a C/C++, PHP, Perl, Python, Tcl and Shell script. It’s a simple “Hello world” file, but a great artwork.

A few laws of computer programming:

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Any given program costs more and takes longer.
If any program is useful, it will have to be changed.
If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
The value of a program is proportional […]

While looking for a Perl script to remove duplications from an array, I found out an interesting resource of snippets.

Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness
Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them […]

Yesterday I received the Ubuntu CD’s I requested one month ago. Well, I won’t talk about technical stuff, just 2 new things:
There’re no longer2 CD’s in one pack. If you want to install, first run the Live CD, and then, click on the icon. I haven’t tested it yet, so I can’t tell whether […]

Vim has released some time ago its 7th version. The first surprise was the compilation: It took only 5 minutes to compile it from the source, I was expecting some hours though!
Vim 7 contains many additional features, the most important are

Spell checking (Finally!) for many languages with highlighting.
More user-friendly completion using a menu to […]

Nvu is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML and XHTML editor. I exclusively use this program when designing web pages for it’s reliable, has many features, supports CSS and generates valid code, let’s not mention it’s free!
However, it has been exactly one year since the last release of Nvu, 1.0 in June 22nd, 2005; no update, […]

Again, OpenSource developers have a sense of humor! I found it out at a Spanish documentation page of Ubuntu. Only requirement: Ubuntu itself. Enjoy!

apt-get moo
 
(__)
(oo)
/——\/
/ | ||
* […]

I fell in love with a Wiki platform, DokuWiki.
Never seen such thing! It doesn’t need any SQL database, security policy is excellent, code is strangely XHTML valid (even when I try to screw it up), everything is controlled through admin interface, it has a cool behavior, and hacking on it is very simple and […]

Yes, that’s it, the wonderful Firefox has a problem, I can’t say it’s a bug, since the developers are aware and I can even say that they did it intentionally; well, here’s the point, when you save a valid XHTML page (Option: Web Page, complete), it reformats it to HTML 4 and keeps XHTML […]

This “mathematical exhibition” may interest even those who don’t like maths!
Load this script on gnuplot, and it will produce a funny shape.
 
set clip points
unset border
set dummy t,y
unset key
set polar
set samples 800, 800
set xzeroaxis lt 0 lw 1.000
set yzeroaxis lt 0 lw 1.000
set xtics axis nomirror norotate autofreq
set ytics axis nomirror norotate autofreq
set title “Amazing […]

Joe (and many others) writes “This month has seen the internet release of the first 3D ‘Open Movie’, Elephants Dream.” From the site:
The 3D animated short ‘Elephants Dream’ will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project which has been community-financed, […]

After having worked on some billions of lines with Perl, I wanted to have fun with that language, very close to “human” English. A quick Google search gave me some crazy poems written in Perl! Yeah, I told you it’s very close.
Here are some example:
 
http://www.perlguy.com/contest.html
if ((light eq dark) && (dark eq light)
       && ($blaze_of_night{moon} […]