Smart Development

gdb is a platform

The gdb debugger is far from complete. It has capabilities to work with unusual architectures and configurations that are only beginning to be explored. You can be one of the innovators!
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Sure, it's Secure!

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An important Linux fix

It's not often that Linux needs to be fixed, but a recently discovered security problem does deserve your attention.
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The Daily Tip

Seven Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts

Bookmark this page now. You're going to want it when it's time to give your mouse a break.
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The TechnoFile

New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients

Twitter feels more and more like an ecosystem these days. Twitter takes features out of clients and rolls them into the API. The client devs incorporate new Twitter features and then extend them. In the end, everybody wins!
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Brains Without Borders

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Car power inverter looks like a cup of coffee!

I never understood why car makers don't build normal home electrical outlets into cars. Are they from another planet? Don't they know that every single driver is carrying at least one device that needs to be charged? Why do they force us to buy an inverter?
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The Daily Tip

Use data mining techniques to detect fraud

The basic premise of Benford's Law is that certain leading digits in any random set of data will appear in a specific non-uniform manner or in a certain frequency -- anything that is outside that frequency indicates a non-compliant anomaly. There are some great tools out there that can let you apply Benford's Law to your data, including Microsoft Excel.
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Tech That Matters

100,000 apps on the iPhone milestone

Yes, there are more than 100k apps now available on the iPhone. But useful apps? Sponge-worthy apps? Apps that you will use more than once? Not so many
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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