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The Creation of the UNIX Operating System
An educational site by Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), home of the original
UNIX. Includes history, an overview of UNIX concepts, and bios of Dennis
Ritchie and Ken Thompson.
Added: Wed Jun 26 2002; URL: http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/;
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What's wrong with Microsoft Windows Vista?
Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system is a giant step backward for your freedoms.
Usually, new software enables you to do more with your computer. Vista, though, is designed to restrict what you can do.
Added: Sat Oct 27 2007; URL: http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista;
id = 119
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MonetDB
MonetDB is a open-source database system for high-performance applications in data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text and multimedia retrieval. MonetDB often achieves a 10-fold raw speed improvement for SQL and XQuery over competitor RDBMSs. An apparently quite mature and active academic project from CWI (Netherlands).
Added: Thu Sep 06 2007; URL: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/;
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Memento: Knowledge management with memes
"Memento is a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics, the theory of memes. Use it to store what you've learnt, and publish what you know - just like a weblog." Some interesting ideas, but
I have yet to take a closer look at how they're implemented.
Added: Tue Nov 19 2002; URL: http://www.memento.org/;
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Going Faster with Python
This article is about optimisation in Python. Optimisation is seeking to minimise the usage of some resource during the execution of a software system. Although commonly synonymous with minimising execution time I’ll also be covering minimising memory occupancy.
Added: Mon Mar 18 2013; URL: http://www.asimihsan.com/articles/going_faster_with_python.html;
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