Postings by Mathias in September 2008
12" widescreen notebook for Linux?
Hello Lazyweb,
I am looking for a robust 12" widescreen notebook with proper Linux support (working suspend mode, robust USB support, and so on). Most of the time I'd use it within some docking-station as desktop replacement, so it should have some proper CPU. Still I'd like to use it for traveling, so heavy 14" notebooks are out of choice.
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C genuinely less powerful than modern languages
So today I finally realized that C is not only less convenient than modern programming languages, it's also genuinely less powerful than modern languages: In garbage collected (and reference counted) languages you can easily write:
if (attr_list != priv->cached_attr_list ||
0 != list_compare (attr_list, priv->cached_attr_list)) {
priv->attr_value = parse_attr (attr_list);
priv->cached_attr_list ...
