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  1. Complex Standards on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Health Level Seven (HL7) and especially the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) are insanely complex.

  2. Haru on Ask Slashdot: Best PDF Handling Library? · · Score: 1

    libHaru is a free C library (install libhpdf-dev in Debian) which supports generation, annotation, compression, encryption. See http://libharu.org/

  3. King's Bounty on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 2

    The 1990 version with it's pschedelic colours and meditative gameplay is highly addictive.

  4. Joe with Trac Syntax Highlighting on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? · · Score: 1

    I take notes using the syntax of my employers wiki which makes it easy to cut and paste from my $EDITOR="joe". My custom syntax highlight file might not be perfect, but it certainly makes the text more colourful: trac.jsf

  5. debootstrap on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    This, but don't bother with installing on usb media. Instead, create a new partition for Debian. You can even share /home if you keep it on a separate partition.
    Installing Debian is even possible from within Ubuntu. Just apt-get install debootstrap and follow instructions.

  6. Re:Easy to crack? on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 1

    Steganography is the right tool for obscuring the use of cryptography, if applied correctly. If not–by using a weak algorithm, none at all or well known kitten images–it can be detected easily, of course. Just collect the low bits and apply natural language statistics or some basic cryptoanalysis.

    Probably the NSA can in fact break any cipher. Why else would they employ so many brilliant mathematicians?
    If I were an agency, I would prefer the easy route and make myself comfortable inside everyones keyboards.

  7. Terminals with graphical capabilities... on Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...have existed for a long time. For example the DEC dxterm supports escape sequences for drawing line, box, circle and oval primitives.
    Nonetheless I am really impressed by this newfangled Enlightenment thingy. Image previews in file listings are useful. Also horizontal and vertical splitting.

  8. LiMux documentation on Youtube on LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far · · Score: 2

    As a munich resident i follow news coverage of the LiMux project from the beginning. About two years ago there was a documentation on TV (in german): LiMux - Freie Software für München
    I am not sure, but I think, that guy with pink hair is a Debian maintainer. Probably, such projects succeed or fail with the competence of a few individuals, if they get the required backing. Also this weekend, a Debian bug squashing party is held in Munich.

  9. Narrative Chart on xkcd on Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth · · Score: 1

    XKCD #657 came to my mind.

    I wonder if anybody has done something similar for A Game of Thrones?

  10. Re:My daughter suffered a TBI on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Helmets simply are not capable of preventing the brain from impacting the inside of the skull as a result of rapid deceleration.

    Really? Isn't the purpose of styrofoam the prolongation of the deceleration phase?
    Have you ever knocked over a hard disk standing on a stone floor? Or on a desk? On a carpet?

  11. Re:Pro-helmet studies please on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    A meta study, hidden behind a paywall.

  12. Re:No helmet on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Your best friend died in a tragic accident with a truck. Wearing a helmet *might* have prevented a deadly injury. Oftentimes children look anywhere but forward, especially when learning to ride a bike, therefore it is a good idea to put a helmet on them. But always remember: Helmets do not prevent accidents, they sometimes alleviate the consequences.

  13. Re:I used to think yes, but not so much on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? · · Score: 1

    I used to be a developer, then I installed my software to production, and now I do tier 1 support. It's a vicious circle.

  14. Childhood memories on xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic · · Score: 1

    When I was a bit younger, I used to draw labyrinths in MS Paint, zoom in and try to find the way out, sometimes cheating with Ariadnes red 1 pixel line. Well, I was never good at football.

  15. Re:Does it matter? on Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, version numbers can have a meaning, if they are used coherently. Please consider http://semver.org/

  16. RFC 1178 on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Why this name? on C++0x Finally Becomes a Standard · · Score: 1

    The D programming language exists and worth a look: http://d-programming-language.org/
    I could not find any P, only P#.

  18. Re:It's been done. on How Cyborg Tech Could Link the Minds of the World · · Score: 1

    Andreas Eschbachs "Black Out" is based on a similar idea: Individuals try to connect their brains to the internet and soon find out, that they can link their brains directly without the need to use obscure protocols.

  19. Re:isn't it the same as virtual desktop? on Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    Same question here. Workspaces are my top-level tabs.

    For each task I am currently working on I use one workspace containing all the required objects (documents) and tools (programs). When I have to switch tasks, I just switch workspaces and come back later.

    Since I am not able to read two texts in parallel, most of my windows remain fullscreen. Sometimes I miss the ability in gnome-terminal to tile single tabs for watching log-files while typing commands, but then, I am too lazy to grab the mouse and rearrange rectangular boxes.

  20. C/C++/Java/Perl/Python references on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 3, Informative

    C
        The GNU C Library
        http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/

    C++
        Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
        http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/

        Boost C++ Libraries
        http://www.boost.org/doc/libs

    Java
        Java(TM) Platform, Standard Edition 6 API Specification
        http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/

    Perl
        Perl version 5.10.0 documentation
        http://perldoc.perl.org/

    Python
        Python Library Reference
        http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html

    For learning C and C++, I recommend these books:

        Kernighan, Ritchie: The C Programming language
        Kernighan, Pike: The Practice Of Programming
        Koenig, Moo: Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example
        Sutter, Alexandrescu: C++ Coding Standards