Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx — a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others — on Sun’s Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this “unusualâ€? event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor’s door and arrested him. From a mailing list: *sigh* More.. Read More
Time to re-partition…
When I originally formatted the drive in my Powerbook, I was still in the “oldâ€? mind-set of having a spare partition around just to have an extra OS available to boot from in the event my primary failed for some reason. It’s been two years (jeez: have I been using this 17“ *that* long?) now, and having never had a major problem w/ OS X, I think I’m ready to.. Read More
Workplace politics
I steer clear of workplace politics…. or rather, office gossip. The politics seem to work their way to me, and I know they have their place, so I don’t fight the system. If possible, I minimize their impact on me, and as *the* code monkey here at work, I’m usually really successful at it. Until now Today’s wise blogger knows that you’re never truly anonymous, and while I *do* believe.. Read More
The UNIX way isn’t always the best way
I spent most of my free time in the last four days setting up a new mail server for myself. The old one, you see, decided that it’d had enough. I can’t be too upset, considering it’d been running on an old IBM ThinkPad for about three years straight.
Yeah …. I watch that amateur singing show
I’ve never been into pop music. For the most part, I can’t STAND pop music, actually. Why do I watch that show Tuesdays on Fox, then? I was thinking about why I was so into it, and essentially it’s because it’s three shows in one: When the show first starts, it’s a comedy. I laugh and laugh and laugh at just how incredibly out of tune the people are, and.. Read More