Year: 2005
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Reader Submissions
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It’s a very exciting thing, when redshift reports that more and more people are visiting the site every day, every week, every month. When he gives us the numbers, I look at him blankly and think, “People are seriously reading this?” Yes, it’s true. We’re even starting to get email submissions with oddball questions. There…
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Star Wars: Revolutions
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I just couldn’t resist posting about this. This rewritten, abridged Episode 3 script is for anyone who was less than thrilled with Lucas’ version. I’m not even a Star Wars nut and I nearly wet myself.
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The Mystery of the Box Office Slump, Solved: Your Movies Are Crap
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We’re all movie experts in our own right, aren’t we? We know what we like. It may not be what the next person likes, but what we do like, we are experts at. And in the past, there has always been a movie to suit our individual and collective tastes. Not this year. I have…
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Google does it again
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Ok, so I was about a week late announcing the goodness that is Backpack. But this is just so cool I couldn’t wait. Google introduced a new homepage, something like My Yahoo, except that it doesn’t suck. I know that’s a subtle distinction for the Yahoo engineers sometimes – particularly the ones working on the…
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Why I Love *nix
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This image says a lot about Windows. I got it while trying to accomplish something at work today, due to no prompting of my own. Notice that the “no” option is grayed out. What the hell am I supposed to do here? I wound up hiding the thing as low as I could on the…
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So far so good
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I’ve had good luck with gnome so far. imwheel takes care of nautilus, and here are some notes for the record: nautilus audio previews need sox compiled with mad for mp3 support (the ‘mad’ USE flag on Gentoo gnome’s recommendation to use mail-notification wasn’t the best, imho – gnubiff is much better. And for the…
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Gnome – can it last?
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Every time a new GNOME release comes out, I’m tempted, and I usually wind up installing the damn thing. I’ve always been disappointed – there are usually enough crash bugs and annoyances that I go right back to a light WM. Not to allow any exceptions, I installed gnome 2.10 yesterday and have been giving…
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Raggle 0.4
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In case you haven’t heard of raggle, it’s a console/web RSS reader written in ruby and ncurses by Paul Duncan. If you’re in the market for a console RSS reader (perhaps to read halffull) it’s a great choice. 0.4, after agonizing delay, was released today. I contributed a lot of the new features and bugfixes,…
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1111111111
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If pi day wasn’t geeky enough for you, it’s now time to party for 1111111111! That’s right, it has officially been 1111111111 seconds since the Unix epoch. As of right…… now! (8:58:31 pm EST) Congratulations Unix! You’ve brought so much joy into the lives of sysadmins everywhere. (we seriously need more posters here to…
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