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. [...]
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 [...]
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 with these instructions.
Don’t dig for [...]
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 developer has too much [...]
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 dinner [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 have so [...]
