I got my BladeCenter E chassis booted with one HS21 blade. I installed Ubuntu, and uploaded some pictures. I also linked to the pictures on reddit, many amusing comments were added.

From a really detailed and approachable post by Gustavo Duarte: The text segment also maps your binary file in memory, but writes to this area earn your program a Segmentation Fault. This helps prevent pointer bugs, though not as effectively as avoiding C in the first place.

PS. I wish Windows had a tiling window manager, this explorer thing sucks

I wonder if I can fake Super and Hyper on Windows with the extended Shift states mentioned in http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/dev/inputinwin.mspx ?

Developing on a Virtual Machine is painfully slow, even though VMWare feels faster than Virtual PC ( Read more... )

Today I learned that I have to get approval/permission to install software that did not come with my work laptop.
So I wrote up a short list:

• Emacs 23.0.60.1 / EmacsW32 1.58, everyone's favorite open source editor.
  
• 7-zip, a compression utility.
  
• Chandler, a PIM written in Python.
  
• GHC, the Haskell compiler.
  
• GIMP, an open source Photoshop replacement ( Read more... )

Slashdot has a link to a blog post about Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign, Get The Facts.

In summary, insert massive flamewar in the comments.

A website often referenced in the pro-windows comments is Promotinglinux.com, which is heavily anti-linux and pro-windows. I was amused that pro-Windows people spent so much time saying bad things about ( Read more... )

Region locking sucks. My DVD drive on my Linux box no longer shows up on the IDE channels, no idea why. So I put one of my movies into my work laptop... and PowerDVD asked me if I wanted to change the region of my DVD player to Europe. Then I noticed that I can only changed the region three more times after this change ( Read more... )

I was entertained to discover that ssh -X works from the N800 to my desktop.

You can see Eclipse there because I've purchased a BUG bundle from BUGlabs, so I'm learning their SDK.


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The open source irc network has a channel dedicated to the C# programming language, namely ##csharp

Someone asked how to compare Microsoft's IIS web server and the Apache web server.
I mentioned that apache includes the Apache Benchmarking tool named ab...
(1:17:30 PM) shapr: and it's free... is MWAST free ( Read more... )