Monthly Archives: August 2007

One of the things I love about Linux is the idea of package management. Most modern distributions use this approach of distributing packages to their users. Debian and Ubuntu have Apt, Red Hat and Fedora have Yum, Gentoo has Portage, … Continue reading →

I’m not kidding! Do not click this link. Just don’t do it. I can’t emphasize this enough: This link, do not click it! Now, how many of you clicked it without reading the rest of the post? Fess up! LOL … Continue reading →

As you may or may not know, I love space trading sims. There is just something liberating about flying out in space, and dogfighting among the stars. So few days ago I picked up Darkstar One. It’s to early to … Continue reading →

There seems to be an interesting argument going lately. The topic that spurs this discussions is: “Should we expect people to adapt to complex user interfaces, or rather adapt user interfaces so that they are easy for people to use?” … Continue reading →

Have you ever heard about The Bloop? It is a mysterious sound recorded somewhere around 50° S 100° W. It was captured by US hydrophone array which was formerly used to detect Soviet submarine movement during the cold war. No … Continue reading →

This is officially awesome: This would be so much better than playing with magnifying glass on a sunny day. I wish I had one of these when I was a kid. You know, we would really put it to use. … Continue reading →

It seems that Dell is shipping broken windows installs again. Just like that time when they shipped machines with corrupted Flash libraries which would somehow cause Windows Update to fail. This time their Latitudes boot to a lovely error: tcsd_win32.exe … Continue reading →

Tumblr is giving me a headache today. Whenever I try to upload an image I get this lovely message: I get it with both the bookmarklet and a manual upload form. Posting text entries, chat quotes and etc still works … Continue reading →

I always say that small, simple and self contained tools can often be more useful, and more feature rich than huge bloated frameworks. For example lets take legendary “Swiss Army Knife of Networking” – netcat. It is a single binary, … Continue reading →

I just wanted to thank the folks at NBC Dateline for all the LULZ: Kinda reminds me of that whole Internet Haet Machine failure produced by Fox. And here I thought that “investigative journalism” means that one has to objectively … Continue reading →

Do you often find yourself missing common Unix utilities such as grep, awk, sed or touch when working under windows? Do you keep typing ls when you really meant dir? If you do, you are in the same boat as … Continue reading →

Don’t you just love these kinds of conversations. I pick up the phone and I hear this: User: “I’m having a problem. I knocked off the computer and now the dell things comes up…” Working at a small accounting company … Continue reading →

All the shows that I watch religiously are on hiatus right now so I’m looking for new stuff to watch (or catch up on). I’m wondering what do you guys watch these days. Maybe I’m missing some really good stuff … Continue reading →

I was always a big fan of Vampire: The Masquerade. I knew that there existed a short lived TV series based on the game’s license but I never really had a chance to see it until now. Over the last … Continue reading →

I’m always strangely compelled to read some of those auto-generated nonsensical sentences generated by spam engines. Sometimes, they are absolute gibberish – but the other times, they almost make sense in some weird way. I got this gem in the … Continue reading →

Comcast saga continues. I thought this shit was over, but I was wrong. We haven’t had any issues with their service for months and all of a sudden we are back to square one. Since last Monday the connection has … Continue reading →

Here is a question: when was the last time you used the Caps Lock key on purpose? When was the last time you went “hey, I wish I could type in ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME”! Chances are that unless … Continue reading →

You learn something new every day. I just learned about the pkill and pgrep commands. I can’t believe I haven’t used these before. Let me give you an example of when they are useful. My Firefox sometimes does something weird … Continue reading →