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I am a long-term StumbleUpon user, which means that I don’t get much sleep. Now, after almost 4 years of stumbling, I have decided to get my life back. Well, at least some sleep!
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Every night when I have to work on the next day (Sunday night to Thursday night ), at [...]

I have just discovered that ext3 defaults to reserving 5% of its partition exclusively for root, as a precaution measure that your system does not get FUBAR when you use it for your root partition. I have a 230GB external USB disk that I use for all my big storage requirements, downloaded stuff, backups etc. [...]

I have been using Ubuntu for quite a while now, but one thing I really dislike is that all the themes are huge space wasters compared to Windows XP. This finally got me angry enough to create a customized version of the Clearlooks theme that tries to be very compact but still maintain its beautiful [...]

I have already written about approximations of e^x, log(x) and pow(a, b) in my post Optimized Exponential Functions for Java. Now I have more In particular, the pow() function is now even faster, simpler, and more accurate. Without further ado, I proudly give you the brand new approximation:
Approximation of pow() in Java
public static double [...]

Over the last year I have gotten quite a lot of traffic, so I think it is time to create a top ten list of the most successful articles since then.

e — Extract Any Archive — The little program “e” is an excellent time saver. Whenever you need to extract zip archives in linux, or [...]