Ahhh, Geek Humor
Saw this one on the digg wires and thought it was too good to pass up posting: How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language: C You shoot yourself in the foot. C++ You accidentally create a…
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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…
“I, Node”, Or: `man mankind.fs`
I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their “fortunes” are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find…
It’s In The Air, Man! The Internet’s IN The AIR!
I’m sitting in an NTB waiting for the service techs to finish patching up a seeping flat, typing away on my MacBook Pro, posting courtesy of the mega-sweet Verizon Wireless V640 Express Card. My employer has been buying the PCMCIA…
Draft Night 2006
September through February is my favorite time of the year, for one reason and one reason only: NFL Football, baby. Last night was the draft for my fantasy football league and I’m even more confident this year in my draft…
Phriday Video Phun
Presented for your enjoyment: Counter Struck: Counter-Strike meets the real world. Heh. Those lucky British Microsoft sods – they got Ricky Gervais (of The Office fame) to do employee training videos for ’em. Brilliant. (Profanity warning: you know those Brits…
Drooling Over Leopard Server
Much virtual ink has been spilled over the revelations concerning Apple’s next operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), with Windows fanboys complaining that Apple is shamelessly copying the Big M and Apple partisans returning fire. All of these discussions…
Don’t Waste Those Processor Cycles On Just ANY Old Screensaver
This one’s for all you Mac owners out there: Phill Ryu’s Top Ten OS X Screensavers. There are some good ones on there, for certain, although most of my machines just end up running Electric Sheep by default anyways.
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…
Wireless Access Point – Comedy Goldmine!
If you’ve been having issues with bandwidth thievesneighbords taking advantage of your open wireless access point, instead of just cutting them off, why not have a bit of fun at their expense instead? Say, for instance, redirecting all traffic to…
