Koders - Source Code Search Engine

Koders.com is a search engine for open source code. Its optimized search engine provides developers with an easy-to-use interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in their applications.

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Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)

Recently, i found this wonderful project where you are challenged to solve interesting problems in C, C++, Pascal, JAVA, Perl, Python, Ada, Smalltalk, Fortran, Assembler, Icon, Ruby, Pike, Haskell, Ocaml, Prolog, CLIPS, Whitespace, Intercal, Brainf**k.
There your code will be tested against, for instance, speed and you will be rated in an online contest with other world-wide programmers.

The system is developed at the Gdańsk University of Technology, ETI Faculty and draws
on a prototype created by Jacek Dąbrowski, MSc. Thesis (2003).

Links:
http://spoj.sphere.pl/
http://sphere.pl/?id=66

Linux vs. Windows: Why Linux will win

"One of the oft-mentioned weaknesses of Linux, fragmentation, is also one of its greatest strengths. Choice is, in immature markets, a good thing. Now, surely, choice comes at a cost. For example, there's no standard way to do certain tasks and development resources are sometimes split among two or more projects. However, these are weaknesses only in the short term. One could similarly argue that evolution of species suffers the same 'weakness' of fragmentation. However, in the long term, the survival and consolidation of the best traits result in an improved breed. Eventually, one of the many approaches to some desktop task will rise to dominance and show the market the right way to do it, and, at the same time, reduce the fragmentation problem."

-Ray, May 8, 2005

Click here to see the full article

Pure Hacking Sense

The iPodLinux project is an open source venture into porting Linux onto the iPod . Most of these kind of hacks have great stories to tell and this is no exception. Remember that iPod wasn't designed to run Linux and its hardware architecture is closed.
See how to extract the bootloader from the 4G iPod by sounding out ticks with the iPod's squeaky piezo. With some tweaking and a makeshift recording studio, he was able to dump the 64 kb file at 5 bytes/sec.

Click here to see more about Piezo's hack.

No more excuses to keep MS Windows!

In systems like GNU/Linux, Mac OS it's possible to run most of MS Windows applications without even using emulation. Cedega, (Wine fork) allows you to run not only 2d apps but even 3d accelerated like most of the recent games. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix

Microsoft Office, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshope, Doom III, Half-life 2, Warcraft III are just some of the many examples of the supported softwares.

Links Related:
http://www.transgaming.com/ - Cedega & Point2Play home
http://www.winehq.com/ - Wine home
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~fcarson/.../ - place where you can get cedega packed version for free
http://www.codeweavers.com/
http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Point2Play
http://lickwid.ath.cx/~tlp/cedega/ - Cedega on FreeBSD

myFortune

Q - Why do computer geeks celebrate Halloween on Christmas?
A - Because OCT 31 equals DEC 25.