I had a mini-discussion with Neil Stevens about the genesis of my Mac use, sparked by the news that GNOME is moving to JavaScript as its primary development language. I used to be a strict Linux-only user and tended to…
I recently had a need to export the contents of a GNU Mailman-based mailing list for WordCamp Philly, so I poked around the web-based Mailman admin interface, hoping to find an easy way to export a .CSV or at least…
I don’t think the hiring committee really knows what it’s asking for on this one. “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. RedHate leads to a general dislike of humanity and root access.”
That’s right, folks, it’s time for another browser-clearing session ’round these parts, so strap in and enjoy. What’s worse than finding out that a former classmate was published in Linux Journal? Finding out that he works for Google and races…
I’m working a bit late today as I had to schedule some downtime for a critical piece of hardware that needed to be powered down, lightly disassembled, have a part replaced and then powered back up. As I unscrewed the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
