Author Archives: Pacoup

Edit: I have updated the article to include considerations for SELinux, which also accounts for other security mechanisms not mentioned, such as AppArmor. I give my apologies to the Linux community for writing such an article ignoring the existence of … Continue reading →

So, if you’re a Web developer, you’ve probably come across a most crucial decision: how should you scale your fonts? Should you use pixels (pixels) or the em measure?

Today, something happened that made me realize my web experience might be much custom to my own usage than I think it is. This evening, I was searching on Google for watches, digital watches of cool concepts. I didn’t find … Continue reading →

Read this first: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/oracles-java-lawsuit-undermines-its-open-source-credibility.ars?old=mobile One word: unbelievable. You want to know what this lawsuit and its many similar friends from Apple and company are? They’re innovation inhibitors. Dalvik, Google’s virtual machine for Java, allowed stuff for Java that could never … Continue reading →

So, while I was making a chart for WebM and H.264 bitrates everyone should use when encoding acceptably high-quality videos for the web, I ended up obviously needing to compare the codecs. With various tests, I concluded that both codecs … Continue reading →

As you all know, July 13, 2010 was the last day of support for Windows 2K and Windows XP SP2 (SP3 is still supported until April 8, 2014, which is just simply WTF). OK. it’s a bit of an overstatement … Continue reading →

We’re now mid-July 2010 and it’s been a while since Google got out the code for VP8 and WebM. Well, truthfully it’s only been a very few months and it’s still very new, but we already have at least one … Continue reading →

This is a tale of my experience learning Japanese and how you can make the best of it to enhance your own experience. What makes me in the position to make such a bold statement as to how to learn … Continue reading →

My Omnibar does what you describe (tab to search). It used to work for dictionary.com, I don’t know if you have noticed but it no longer works for dictionary.com. It still works for amazon, urban dictionary etc. but it does … Continue reading →

For an innovative company like Opera, there’s a few things that stay amiss in my head as to why they do certain things. Opera was one of the first to bring bookmark syncing with Opera Link. In fact, I believe … Continue reading →