So its a little after noon today and I just woke up. No, I’m not a lazy late sleeper, I got home from work last nite about 4:45am. We had a huge server room rebuild consolidating ~40 servers, rebuilding two racks, and going to the data center. Loads of fun, let me tell you. Anyway,… Read More »
So I was just browsing through the latest copy of Linux Journal that came in the mail today and I noticed something familiar in one of the screen shots. On page 65, in the article “Hacking the Nokia Internet Tablet” they provide a screen shot of the Pidgin buddy list. Glancing at it I noticed… Read More »
Jumping on another meme: “You have discovered that bad people always have a bad effect, and good people a good effect, upon their nearest neighbors;” – Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along… Read More »
Its hilarious sometimes what you find trolling identi.ca and twitter. If you’re up for some lolz install the “sl” package: sudo aptitude install sl Next time you fat finger your directory listing of “ls” you’ll get a nice little surprise. (Check out the man page too, its configurable.) I think this wins the official “This… Read More »
I came across another easter egg this afternoon I thought I would share before I forgot about it. This one is related to OpenOffice. To find this easter egg do the following: Start OpenOffice Spreadsheet (Applications > Office > OpenOffice Spreadsheet) Within an empty field, type: =GAME(“StarWars”) Enjoy
This post is dedicated to the conversation I had earlier today with cjwatson… This evening I went out to dinner with _MMA_ from the Ubuntu Studio crew. One nice thing about my traveling job is that I get to meet Ubuntu community members from around the country. I generally like to take them out to… Read More »
With Ubuntu 8.04 being the second LTS (Long Term Support) release it is also possible to upgrade from LTS to LTS releases. This means upgrading Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 8.04. I have tested this in a previous post, “Dapper 6.06 to Hardy 8.04 Direct Server Upgrade“, which you might also be interested in (that post… Read More »
So I’ve finally, somehow, become the latest casualty of twitter. I don’t know how it happened, because for the longest time I did not get it. Well to give you some idea I get twitters to my phone… yeah, shameful I know. In any event, if you’re a twitter user drop by at https://twitter.com/zelut and… Read More »
Ever since I learned about the benefits of aptitude vs apt-get I’ve switched over. It’s been great and I’m sure I’ve preached about the benefits before (/me does some digging and pulls up links) here. Well, I ran into something yesterday that I haven’t been able to solve with aptitude. Is it possible to pull… Read More »
I was just looking through my swag-bag from the Utah Open Source Conference and noticed something a little off on the SUSE Linux Enterprise “evaluation” CD that were included from Novell. On the back of the CD set, under the Novell logo it reads: …”*Linux is a registered trademark of Linux Torvalds” Linux Torvalds? I… Read More »