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 in use for 3 […]
Author Archives: sam
Type less, smile more
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 INITDIR=’/sbin/init.d’; fi export INITDIR; […]
Meme take 1
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 you describe a situation […]
Best Web Ad Ever
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.
Dropbox
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 interested they have a great […]
F and B
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.
Email is a spectacular failure
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 clicks “Send.” The […]
Chrome
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 and new javascript engine […]
Be yourself, even when you’re root
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 () { local SUUSER=root local ORIGU=$USER local […]
Privatized Free Speech
For your information, lady the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint! What does the Supreme Court have to do with it, now that it’s privatized?