Everyone Give Slashdot A Round Of Applause As They Join Us In The “Noughties”
Slashdot: finally moving to CSS-based layout, and not a momentfive years too late. Heh. Maybe it’ll finally render correctly in Firefox, for a change.
Category Linux
Eeeenteresting…
As previously noted in this space, the Google Mini isn’t exactly a model of openness. I’d always assumed that it ran a version of Linux as its operating system, but was never quite sure. That is, until today. Google issued…
Just Another Day In The Life Of A Sysadmin
What a fun work day today was! </sarcasm> It started off with a false virus alarm due to a bad .dat from NAI and then was followed by all manner of meetings and teleconferences regarding the recent failure of one…
A Request For Advice: Programming Geek Edition
Now a question for my technologically astute readers out there: is there a Mac equivalent to PSPad out there? Owen originally pointed me in the direction of PSPad and man, does it kick butt! The only problem is that it’s…
Ubuntified
I’d heard quite a few good things about the Debian-derived Ubuntu Linux distribution, so I decided to give it a spin. We downloaded the PowerPC Live CD here at work as a test of our newly-enabled 4.5Mbps ISP drop and…
More PlayStation 3 News
Ken Kutaragi uttered some words in a recent interview translated over at Gamespot that went a long way towards quickening the pulse of this PlayStation/Linux geek: Impress PC Watch: The PlayStation 3 has some extremely high specifications, but it doesn’t…
Yin And Yang
Good: defending the GPL against spurious legal attacks. Bad: invoking Godwin’s Law in order to do so. Bad, bad P.J.! Poor form!
Linux Users: Use GMail Like A Remote File System
Now this is just stinkin’ cool. An enterprising fellow by the name of Richard Jones has made it possible to use your GMail account like a filesystem, with support for most UNIX commands like ls, rm, grep, cp, mv, etc.…
Mailing List Humo[u]r
I’m a member of more-than-a-few mailing lists with rather high daily message counts and about once a month or so, some list novice will step in and commit the cardinal sin of all Usenet/mailing list sins: top-posting. Top-posting is, as…
Linux Desktop Eyecandy Geek-Out Moment Of The Day
Okay, this is wickedly cool. The GNOME hackers over at RedHat have been working on a while slew of nifty extensions to the xorg X server and have been adding some effects that not even Mac OSX (the current king…
