The difinitive guide to sed one-liners. Good for showing off in front of Unix newbies.
Daniel Robbins, creator of Gentoo, joins the dark side. Is he being groomed as the new Sith Lord?
A good guide to performance measurement on Linux. Quick summary : vmstat, iostat, and netstat are your friends.
Finally, a good summary of X windows […]
Longhorn is losing features right and left; WinFS has been given the axe, and now Monad has been cut. A /. post summarizes the remaining new features in Longhorn. And they sound surprisingly similar to the upcoming features in Linux/free Unix desktops…
Longhorn feature
free Unix desktop feature
Avalon: a new user interface subsystem and API based on […]
More Gentoo bugzilla humor: xmms-1.2.9 goes down more often than a drunken whore. An apt description…
In the spirit of exam season in universities worldwide, here is a quiz for aspiring gentoo devs and ebuild contributors.
Here is complete, non-emotional, well-stated summary of the KHTML vs. WebCore debacle. Conclusion: WebCore is a defacto fork, and /. posters […]
Russ Key is the most useful Firefox extension ever. If your Cyrillic typing skills are lacking, your keyboard is only labeled in Latin, and your friends are making fun of you for attempting to type Russian (incomprehensibly) in the Latin alphabet, this is the extension for you. Right click on an input field, select Russ […]
To my absolute surprise, I discovered that Python has a nice, logical, and at least 60% sane syntax for dealing with character set conversion. (This is in contrast with virtually all other languages on earth, which have barely entered the Unicode era, and if so, somehow believe that their version of Unicode is the one […]
HOLY COW I’M TOTALLY GOING SO FAST OH F***
Damn these fools, they are making the rest of us gentoo users look even less sane than we really are…
How to make fake fingerprints and how to compress fingerprint images efficiently. (via comments on boinboing)
Brief guide to creating horizontal menus using CSS, along with links to more detailed explanations — quite useful.
A point-by-point comparison of various version control systems (both open-source and commercial ones). Predictably, VSS is by far the worst.
Is this the real […]
These are tentacles.
This totally sucks. The ol’ nvidia card is stable as a rock for a year, and then suddenly — well, read the thread for yourself.
These are damn good prices (that’s root access you are looking at).
These are very good developments — arch + git = dooom of bitkeeper.
‘Schwartzian Transform’ — for efficiently and functionally sorting lists in Perl.
Linode — uses UML to offer cheap shared Linux hosting with root access. If I had $20 extra per month, I would take it.
GPL — the general porn license?
Interesting explanation for why a hobbit archer would make an excellent hunter but lousy soldier (aka why […]
Peter Seibel has written a book called Practical Common Lisp, which is available in dead-tree form for money or online for free. From what I have seen, the book is excellent, to put in mildly. It shows how to get the most out of Lisp’s functional nature, and how to harness that power for everyday […]
Linux hardware incompatibility list. Looks rather poorly populated.
Tips and code for getting laptops (e.g. Thinkpads, HP’s etc) to recognize non-approved wireless miniPCI cards (apparently laptop manufacturers restrict the models you can use so as to meet FCC requirements for the combined internal antenna / miniPCI card / laptop assembly).
Most insightful /. post ever.
On February 4, 2005, a serial burglar called Ben Parks broke into a Cambridge (UK) apartment. Unfortunately for Ben Parks, the apartment belonged to Duncan Grisby — a programmer who had set up a webcam with a motion detector (I am pleased to say he was using Linux and the open-source project Motion), and had […]
Apparently, there exist companies that will manufacture small custom PCB’s for cheap (i.e. starting at ~$20 for ~20 square inches of single-sided PCB) and quickly (3-4 days), take orders online, and ship to American consumers. Knowing about these services would have made my life a year ago significantly easier. Random slashdot comments have recommended […]
Found a couple of articles by Dru Lavigne that help introduce Linux users to the FreeBSD equivalents of their favorite tools. Quite useful, if, like me, you are a long-time Linux user who needs to use a FreeBSD box.
Found a good list of Linus’s comments on non-free Linux kernel modules. Turns out that the policy is a lot harsher than I thought. On the subject of the supposed exception that allows modules to be non-free, Linus states that
Well, there really is no exception. However, copyright law obviously
hinges on the definition of “derived […]
Apparently, a crazy individual has written an X server on top of OpenGL. The full gory discussion, discussing the numerous ways in which this pre-beta program isn’t quite ready for prime time, can be read here. The basic operation, as I understand it, is as follows. A normal X server is used to set up […]
Interesting discussion on /. about steganography (well, an interesting ACM article and a moronic discussion - but that’s the usual case for slashdot). Thoughts: steganography in the time domain is not mentioned. For instance, port knocking hides information in the timing between packets. How about the frequency with which one checks one’s email? Times at […]
Getting Started with LaTeX by David R. Wilkins in html form. Quite useful - among other things, this is the first place where I found the \not form of negated relations — \not\subset, \not=, \not\sim and the like (as opposed to the \n form of negated relations, which are more limited — for instance, there […]
General reference: good comparison of various blog servers available here. One of my main reasons for picking WordPress.