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Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries

Does the Microsoft EULA adequately tell you what will happen if you don’t activate the product or if you can’t establish that it is genuine? Well, not exactly. It does tell you that some parts of the product won’t work - but it also ambiguously says that the product itself won’t work. Moreover, it allows Microsoft, through fine print in a generally unread and non negotiable agreement, to create an opportunity for economic extortion.

Spotlight On Glark

A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions (“and'’ and “or'’), and automatic exclusion of non-text files.

The Linux Desktop Myth

Someone's personal take on why Linux is not more popular than it is and that person's "how I came to use Linux" story.

The Power of 'yield' in Ruby

  • LXer; By Sarah Vessels (Posted by cheshire137 on May 29, 2006 9:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
...and super. These two keywords allow you to pass control back and forth between parent and child methods, to weave power between a more general method (in the parent class) and a more specific method (in the child class) with ease and logic. Using yield and super effectively can help you maintain the DRY (Don't repeat yourself) principle, keeping your code easier to maintain.