This is a crowd funding campaign for an inexpensive FPGA board with a simpler HDL with an web IDE. I first heard about it at 30c3 (video links below) and I think it's a great starting point for everyone who always wanted to play around with FPGAs but found it too difficult or too expensive to get started.

More about the language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t7qO-RbqTw ; http://blog.pshdl.org/

Talk by author abouth FPGAs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er9luiBa32k

I was thinking about this, too, when I read his name.

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value. [1]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth#Quotes_about_Nik...

Would you be willing to say a bit more about which country and how you got there? (My E-Mail is in my profile.)

I'm currently in Switzerland, but I plan to live in Mediterranean countries other than Italy and Spain for some time in the future. I only ever lived in rich European countries, so I would be interested in your experiences.

If you want to get to know him a bit better, read his (freely licensed) biography: http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/faif-2.0.pdf

Thank you, I'll read it over summer.

This was a very graphic and easy-to-understand explanation of indexes in general. Although I thought I understood indexes, it helped me understand secondary indexes better. Thanks for linking!

Did they ever write the promised second part where they wanted to present B-trees in a similar form? I think I understand B-trees, but it wouldn't be the first time I realise I didn't really understand something after all...

According to a twitter answer, yes. At least with Virtual PC. (See reply to question by MrComputerRevo on http://twitter.com/#!/windevs )

Edit: Direct link: http://twitter.com/#!/windevs/status/113690827217313792 (Thank you, Simon.)

BTW: How do you link to a twitter conversation?

You click on the timestamp (e.g. "6 minutes ago")

the dev tools seem to be available for x64 only, and I'm pretty sure Virtual PC will only host a 32bit o/s?

in the other thread someone mentioned vmware panics when booting win8, but parallels works ok. I'm going to give virtualbox a shot

This is a cool project. :-)

It also doesn't work in Opera, because the emscripten compiled CPython doesn't work with this browser. No problems in latest stable Firefox.

Is there a dedicated graphics processor or switchable graphics in this notebook? This might explain the rather big difference in battery time since many Linux graphics drivers are not power-optimized and switchable graphics does not work. [1]

Anecdotally, my rather old notebook (Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V3205) runs cooler, quiter and longer when using Linux compared to Windows Vista. I still get slightly more than 2 hours out of my battery (3000mAh left). Maybe this is less of a problem with older, well supported hardware.

[1] But people are working on it, see e.g. https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee

Please change the title. "Lulzsec suspect arrested scotland yard" implies to me that it was the suspect who arrested scotland yard, whereas the suspect was actually arrested by scotland yard.

Edit: Thank you!