It occured to me this morning to revisit the issue of tail-call-optmization using function decorators in Python. Last time I checked, the working trick involves stack inspection (works only in CPython) and throwing an exception whenever a tail call is detected. In short: non-portable and slow. I posted an enhancement here that allows for [...]

From LWN:
“The acquisition of Trolltech will help Nokia accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business…”
This is an interesting development. Presumably, given Maemo’s an entrenched investment in the GTK+/GNOME toolchain, Nokia will find itself in the same boat as Novell, supporting two directly competing platforms.
Though considering [...]

Found out from Maírín Duffy’s post that Kathy Sierra, of Creating Passionate Users, have been receiving death threats.
This saddened me greatly, that the Internet’s perceived anonymity is freedom of speech is used as an opportunity for making such hateful, vitriolic (and in this case, illegal) speech.
Having found out about Kathy’s amazing blog not too long [...]

My L2000 laptop has been experiencing random lock-ups under Linux for a long time; I’ve been attributing it to kernel issues (ACPI, APIC, sound and network drivers) because said lock-ups do not occur under Windows.
As it turns out, removing one of the two memory modules seems to have solved the problem (more than two days’ [...]

Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 Wireless-G MIMO Performance Router and Access Point
At our apartment we’ve been struggling recently with our old Linksys WRT54GC — we bought it almost two years ago for its size (costs the same as the full-sized WRT54G which has two antennas, but is as big as Apple’s Airport Express), but came to regret it [...]