http://samrowe.com/wordpress Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I make blogging too hard. I always think I have to be writing something important and that's just untrue. So here's a small collection of thoughts since I last blogged. Yaketystats 2.1 is out. I feel like we're floundering exposure-wise. I really think we have the best product out there, but ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/12/23/sheesh/ A lot like real excrement, it's a lot harder to give shit away than it is to make it! It's hard to believe just how much work we put into being ready to give this software away. You see, when you write something for yourself --and remember that YaketyStats has been ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/10/13/yaketystats-released/ How many times a week do you type /etc/init.d/blah start and then you realize you're on HP-UX and it's /sbin/init.d/blah Forget it. # Turn on extended globbing and programmable completion shopt -s extglob progcomp export MYOS=$(uname -s) if [[ "${MYOS}" = "Linux" || "${MYOS}" = "SunOS" ]] ; then INITDIR='/etc/init.d'; else ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/10/12/type-less-smile-more/ So as I'm sure you'll imagine I'm not big on blog memes or chain letters, but I thought of one that might be fun, so I thought I'd give it a shot especially since my blogging has dwindled a bit lately. So the meme is Today's Hell, the idea being that ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/10/05/meme-take-1/ This is the coolest interwebs ad I've ever seen. It'll take you no time to watch it. Have a look. Edit: Uh, I guess they took it down. :( The anti-quality war rages on! Edit again!: It's back. http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/09/23/best-web-ad-ever/ If you use multiple computers, you have to check out DropBox. It hooks into your file-manager (Linux, Windows, Mac) and gives you a special folder that's synced to all of your machines as well as being accessible via the web (both authenticated and a "Public" folder.) If you're even mildly ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/dropbox/ I do my best to leave politics out of my discussions with others, but I have to say that Ed found the perfect video. I've never been a big J. Stewart fan, but this is pretty great stuff. http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/f-and-b/ As the kids say "epic fail." I'll start with that so that hopefully my highly radioactive core of curmudgeon doesn't shine through quite as brightly. Now I'll tell you a bunch of stuff you already know. Email works like this: A user fires up an email client and composes an email and ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/09/03/email-is-a-spectacular-failure/ So Google's launching a new browser called Chrome. It's based off WebKit which is Apple's re-do of KHTML which is the HTML rendering engine created for Konqueror, the KDE browser. If the post is to be believed, it promises to be extremely cool, especially for people with multiple CPUs. The sand-boxing ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/09/01/chrome/ Ever run a command only to realize you're not root but need to be? Of course you have. What if that command was long and painful to create? There's no reason, Dude, to not have access to your bash history even after becoming root vi 'su'. function su () { ... http://samrowe.com/wordpress/2008/09/01/be-yourself-even-when-youre-root/