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I have moved.
I no longer intend to add further content here and will probably remove most of what's here in the relatively near future. Please feel free to follow along at the domain that used to point here, Pants Full of Unix (where I will be restricting content to the more technical side of what I used to post here; more personal content will simply not be ( Read more... ) -
That music chart meme is STILL popular?
Apparently.
I see some people are getting away with screenshots, including of Google apps, and maps, one of which made me realize that my submission to the pool couldn't possibly be expressed as just a picture.
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A momentary tidbit of political bullshit.
So, those who know me personally may also know that I have, since I've been voting, been a registered Libertarian (let's please not even talk about Ron Paul, mkay?), although that'll be changing shortly, given that I now live in the city of Philadelphia and the only way to have a meaningful vote here is to vote in the Democratic primaries ( Read more... ) -
Go go Gadget PPA!
The Philadelphia Parking Authority tried to boot mayor-elect Michael Nutter's (say it like you're on Monty Python: "He's a NUT-TAIR!") plain clothes police detail's SUV, parked illegally in Center City ( Read more... ) -
Possibly the best Chateau Petrogasm post ever.
They say (I haven't tasted it, so I don't know):
2006 Abantu, South African Syrah/Cab Blend ($29.99)
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Here's what open source documentation SHOULD look like.
eAcceleratorNo, it's not perfect English (Oxford, American, whatever... Standard {Written,White} English), but it makes its point clearly and concisely. Like a blog, it's still conversational (in a way technical documentation "shouldn't" be), but that isn't getting in the way of my understanding the content ( Read more... ) -
But, really, RPM can still service my balls.
Is this even English?
The first thing you'll probably want to to is get the source to build cleanly without using RPM. To do this, unpack the sources, and change the directory name to $NAME.orig. Then unpack the source again. Use this source to build from.
Wait, what? I mean, I'm even letting the complete Fail at 5th grade grammar go, but I'm ( Read more... ) -
So, about the RPM rant...
When you people were telling me to go look at the spec files that you'd written for something else (which was helpful, in theory) or that I should really be using XYZ other Linux distribution (which was completely useless, so you can go get fucked again, still), what you really should have said was ( Read more... ) -
Realization of the Evening:
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)'s Spaces is conscious of multiple monitors. To the extent that if you hit its "preview all desktops" button with more than one monitor, it shows you the content of all of those monitors for all desktops.
Until I noticed this, I figured Apple was just playing catchup to Microsoft's deskman.exe XP powertoy (possibly by ( Read more... )