January 2008
28 posts
Quick & Easy →
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and... →
Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games →
arbourp writes to mention that hackers Michael Steil and Felix Domke have demonstrated a way to hack the Wii that makes running homebrew code much easier. “The hack advances the possibility of running homebrew code with access to full system resources on the device, not just programs that Nintendo has sanctioned. Such games might be developed to run from a DVD drive, at least in theory. No...
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Google Products You... →
December 2007
25 posts
Responsible Behavior →
10 Reasons Why the Command Line is More Friendly... →
I aim all of these not just at Linux, BSD, and Unix-alikes, but at every computer system ever. Nor do I say all of this as a power-using geek, but to apply it to every computer user everywhere.
YouTube - The Christmas Broadcast, 2007 →
The World’s Loneliest Prada Store (PICS) →
Prada marfa is an unusual building located in the desert near marfa, texas on an otherwise desolate stretch of highway 90. Behind the glass a selection of shoes and bags, presumably more expensive than the structure itself, have sat untouched since 2005. Very few people have ever been inside prada marfa…
YouTube - The Royal Channel →
YouTube - Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote →
Free Software Smackdown: RMS vs. Theo →
There was a very long thread on the misc@openbsd.org mailing list of the last week. It all started with some comments from Richard Stallman responding to complaints to him about his past remarks on BSDTalk. Lots of flaming and other arguments ensued. Including this snippet.
Theo: “Since both emacs and gcc contain code inside them which permit them to compile and run on commercial operating...
YouTube - DragonForce - Through The Fire And... →
avatraxiom: The Problems of Perl: The Future of... →
DC Power in Datacenters →
Phil Windley just posted at article at Between the Lines on using DC power in datacenters to save power….
Finally! Ubuntu Live Snapshots With TimeVault →
This guide shows how to use Timevault on Ubuntu 7.10. TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in time. Restore functionality is integrated into Nautilus.
Nobody Cares What Your Code Looks Like →
In The Problems of Perl: The Future of Bugzilla, Max Kanat-Alexander* laments the state of the Bugzilla codebase:
Once upon a time, Bugzilla was an internal application at Netscape, written in TCL. When it was open-sourced in 1998, Terry (the original programmer), decided to re-write Bugzilla in Perl. My understanding is that he re-wrote it in Perl because a lot of system administrators know...
undvd: dvd ripping made easy ~ numerodix blog →
ActiveDirectoryHowto - Community Ubuntu... →
Best Project Management Explanation Ever! →
Best Project Management Explanation E →
Words could not have said it any better. Makes me smile every time I look at it.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography →
Coding Horror: Has CAPTCHA Been... →
Ars Technica 2007 holiday gift guide: Page 1 →
Python-AD - Trac →
Dell's World of Warcraft Laptop →
Psychor writes “Dell has released a high specification new laptop complete with World of Warcraft branding (Horde and Alliance versions available). With a starting price of $4,499 it’s not cheap, but does feature SLI graphics and AGEIA PhysX technology (a laptop first). RAID and solid state storage are also options.” Unfortunately for purchasers, the laptop won’t boot on...