"If any language could be said to be ideally placed to deal with the challenges of the next 10 years it's Erlang. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of parallel and multi-core architectures, and natively supporting distributed systems coding, Erlang is a valuable addition to your programming skill set..."

"...The benefit of requiring the alt attribute to be omitted, rather than simply requiring the empty value, is that it makes a clear distinction between an image that has no alternate text (such as an iconic or graphical representation of the surrounding text) and an image that is a critical part of the content, but for which not alt text is available...”

"I got bitten by trying to use Python 2.5 code that I originally wrote for a Debian system on my Gentoo box and it being angry with me. Rather than rewriting it for the short time left that Gentoo has Python 2.4 as the default, I decided to go for it now..."

"I’m guessing that most people with a digital camera or a web site have spent time cropping pictures. There are lots of programs that can do this. Often we start out by using the ones that happen to be installed, and we manage for better or worse with the functionality they happen to have. In this post I hope to show you that the GIMP is a great tool for cropping pictures..."

This article is one of the worst pieces of fud I have ever seen. It's not bad because it works. It's bad because it's so poorly thought out. The author's ignorance borders on mind boggling. Feel free to bury the story, but consider visiting the site and posting some feedback to the author. While I doubt he will care, anyone reading it will at least see the responses.

In 2004 Daniel Robbins, the founder of Gentoo Linux, walked away from the project after creating the nonprofit Gentoo Foundation to handle its intellectual property (IP). In a blog post last month, Robbins wondered if he should take back the software, since it didn't appear the foundation was taking care of things.

Kontron has introduced a ruggedized convertible notebook, aimed at law-enforcement officers and other field personnel. The NotePAC Duo features a fanless, magnesium case design and a 1.2 GHz Core Duo processor, the company says.

SCO's one motion in limine [PDF] it has filed so far is a remarkable one. It would like the court to order Novell, its representatives and its witnesses not to speak about the IBM litigation or any commentary about it to the jury. "Commentary" would be us Groklaw chickens and, SCO claims, "other similar websites".