http://www.pi.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/creation.html

The Genesis creation story, via command line interface.

It almost makes me miss compiling Java programs via telnet at 3:00am. Almost.

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"Is this a [memory] chip? How do you get the CDs out?" -- Employers' 4 year-old son, on examining a 3.5" floppy diskette

Reading IPSec as ImpSec makes networking stuff much harder to understand.

Firefox users should update Firefox ASAP, as there's a serious vulnerability (remote execution of code) in the "old as of this morning" one.

My very favorite brother, talldalry, has a USB drive which isn't playing nicely with Linux. Or is being rudely ignored by Linux. Or something.

What I really truly must have: a .wav file of StrongBad screaming "Trogdor!" Just that bit, not the entire song. I have the whole song as a .mp3 file, but I want that one word as a .wav so I can set it as my Windows startup sound at work.

I NEED.

I kick ass.

I dedicate the fact that Friday was a good day to Dr. Jim Jacobs, who taught me what a capacitor looks like and what it does. I was replacing a faulty tape drive1 and trying not to let any of the screws fall into the server. Of course one did. Of course it landed right by a set of fairly chubby (for a motherboard) capacitors. That would have been ( Read more... )

Why buy a docking station for your laptop/notebook/whatever computer, as opposed to just attaching your monitor, keyboard, network, and mouse cables directly to said portable computer?

(This is a serious question, as I'm pricing docking stations for work and have never used the beasts.)