Fun In The Sun (Microsystems Server)
Or: RedHat Enterprise Linux's `ypbind` Is Functionally Brain-Dead
WARNING/WARNUNG/ADVERTENCIA/AVERTISSEMENT: Geeky rant follows. If you don't give a hoot about UNIX and/or Linux, you may just want to give this post a pass. -ed.
First, a little background: like many shops with a core infrastructure consisting of UNIX/*NIX servers of varying ages and configurations, we have run [...]
Friday Link Dump
Okay, time to toss out all the nifty links that I stumbled over in the past week but never really made it to "full post" status. Enjoy.
Vids
Kinetic destruction visited upon an old Toyota, rubber band-style.
Robin Williams guest-starred on "Who's Line Is It, Anyway?". Witness the hilarity.
Do not, under any circumstances, take these guys [...]
Why I Love The Internet, Part 308,456
…It makes me laugh. An interesting discussion popped up over at Slashdot regarding the lack of female applicants to, and therefore, lack of females being sponsored by the GNOME project's "Summer of Code" (sponsored by Google). The conversation revolved around the general lack of females in tech fields and spawned the following comment:
There're [...]
A Virtual Cornucopia Of Cool Software
Google has been on a "pro-Doug" tear recently as far as I can see, releasing first Picasa, then Google Earth for Linux, along with the cool-in-concept Google Browser Sync plugin for Firefox. The Google Sync extension only ranks cool in concept because, well, in order for it to work to its capacity, you have [...]
Network Gremlins
I don't know if it's a universal I.T. thing or not, but at my place of employment we sysadmins have taken to blaming any freak accident/unexplainable computer phenomenon/Series of Unfortunate Events on "gremlins". A person couldn't log on five minutes ago and all of a sudden, they can? Gremlins. USB sticks now [...]
Site News And Updates
I've made a few changes around here lately and thought it might be worth pointing out the (fairly subtle) modifications.
First up is the Rolling Archives visible at the bottom of the main blog page, originally conceived of by Michael Heilman and then nicely WordPress plugin-ized by Zeo, meaning that it was dead easy to drop [...]
Bill Gates: Apple's Best Pitchman
Heh. Looks like Microsoft's continuing troubles with security patches may be bearing fruit for Apple and Linux distributors (in the satire market, at least).
Scrappleface: Microsoft Extends Apple Sales Promotion to Jan. 10.
(2006-01-05) — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it would extend, until January 10, its program to promote the sales of rival Apple computers, as [...]
