Indonesia Faces Call for US Trade Sanctions over Online Piracy
Indonesia has been very active on the anti-piracy front in recent months, with the government ordering Internet providers to block hundreds of pirate sites. Despite these enforcement efforts, several high profile US entertainment industry groups see room for improvement in the Asian country. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which includes a wide range of copyright groups including the MPA, RIAA, and ESA, made...
Movie & TV Show Database Bombards Google With Bizarre Takedown Notices
First launched in 1993, France-based company AlloCiné aims to support the entertainment industries by providing information on movies and TV shows. The company operates a portal located at Allocine.fr where users can research movies, TV series, actors and view a wide range of additional information such as release dates, for example. While less well-known than iMDb, for example, Allocine.fr is a huge draw with more than 46...
Use Vim to manage your task list and access Reddit and Twitter
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read...
Managing processes on Linux with kill and killall
In Linux, every program and daemon is a “process.” Most processes represent a single running program. Other programs can fork off other processes, such as processes to listen for certain things to happen and then respond to them. And each process requires a certain amount of memory and processing power. The more processes you have running, the more memory and CPU cycles you’ll need. On older systems, like my...
How to get started with test-driven development
I am often approached by software developers who are on board with the switch to test-driven development (TDD). They understand that describing expectations first and then writing code to meet those expectations is the best way to write software. And they agree that writing tests first does not introduce any overhead since they must write tests anyway. Still, they find themselves stuck, not being clear on what to test, when to test...
