First-Rate Geeky Command Line Head-Smackage
WARNING: GEEKY CONTENT AHEAD
If you have no desire to read about login shells, Linux, source code management or other similarly geeky content, you'd best be skipping this one. -ed.
Have you ever allowed a nuisance to go on for literally years simply because you couldn't be bothered to do enough research to effectively nip it in [...]
This'll Help Convince The Feds To Adopt Linux
Via Slashdot, I saw a story about Richard Stallman convincing Cuba to adopt Linux. Linux companies and Linux advocates have been struggling against a reputation as mere software Communism - good thing Open Source Software's strongest "advocate" (RMS) has gone and proved the case to be, well, true.
Gah.
Burnination, The Follow-Up
With apologies to Trogdor: Shortly after I posted my review of Toast, I stumbled across a comparison review of a few of the top Mac burning software packages. Toast makes an appearance, as do Burn and two others, as well as a 5th one that was suggested in the reviews' comments (LiquidCD) which [...]
Computing News And Notes
A few small compuer-related things have popped up over the last few days and I thought I'd take a second or two to jot down my observations for the benefit of all you fellow Intertron users out there.
Apple's recently-released 10.4.8 update to Mac OS X added a nifty "zoom using scroll wheel feature, allowing users [...]
U.N.helpful
Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald really took it to the French in re: their hypocricy in Lebanon in recent days. To wit:
In recent weeks, France stepped forward to act as a broker of peace in Lebanon. “Act” is the key verb in that last sentence, as it now would seem that the only [...]
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 [...]
