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…
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…
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…
…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…
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…
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…
