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“ For all the viruses, malware, and exploits that crawl around the web, fundamental flaws in the system are supposed to be few and far between, but the last two months have proven to be an exception to the rule. source...

“I have a linux server setup with 4 500GB HDDs in a raid 0 with mdadm. I have another 500GB I want to add but also want to convert the whole thing to a raid 5. I have around 780GB source...

“This is a maxim from Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month. These days I’m thinking it’s the single most important lesson there is about software. It’s been brought rudely home to me by my recent work on mod_atom, whose design terribly source...

“A major solar cell breakthrough was achieved by Day4 Energy which now claims that its technology will improve the solar cell efficiency by 19% and in the same time the costs will be decreased by 25%. These new solar cells source...

“ When David Butler joined Coca-Cola (KO) almost five years ago, he was given, as he tells it, "the Post-it Note mandate: We need to do more with design. Go figure it out." Butler, who had come from a gig source...

“ One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads more...

“The other day I was watching David Pogue’s presentation When it comes to tech, simplicity sells on Ted Talks about good and bad UI design, which overall was very good. However good UI (User Interface) design is not always as more...

“From top to bottom, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences (CAS) is shaping up to be the greenest building in The City by the Bay: For example, it's expected to use 50 percent less energy than California codes allow a source...

No wonder users rely on the mouse so much. Most browsers do an embarassingly bad job of making the focus obvious, so users feel compelled to click on fields to orient themselves.

not sure if these designs are for the real world or for a Tron remake

“Many e-commerce sites these days tend to be loaded down with too much information on their landing pages. The reasoning for cluttered e-commerce sites is simple: the more information you can cram on the page, the more the user will source...

“Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from source...

“According to Walter Stahel -- one of the founders of the sustainability movement and original thinkers behind the Cradle-to-Cradle design philosophy – social ecology is one of the five pillars of sustainability. He defined social ecology as encompassing “…the fabric source...

“Have you ever sat down in front of your workdesk, and clicked away at your computer for hours only to feel clammy and inhibited by your environment?  Chances are, your present office chair is not as ergonomic as it could source...