Apologies for the paucity of posts today. I am feeling brain drain from a technical presentation at the $employer today. And my mind is still spinning on re-working my audio workflow under Linux now that my mixer is working.
- FSF calls on government to stop pushing Adobe Reader, The Register
- Mozilla slips in a stability beta, re-ordering betas slightly, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/moz_suspends_firefox_updates/
- Humorous how-to on reading a patent, BoingBoing
- Babbage’s debugger
Via Hacker news, this blog post summarizes a paper the grandfather of computing wrote in contemplating the problems troubleshooting his early designs for purely mechanical computers. Despite its similarities to a sequence diagram, it is perhaps akin to the sort of mental contortions early coders went through in converting machine code to binary, as Babbage’s notion and examples deal with the lowest level of his proposed machinery.
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