For many, Labor Day marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall and winter. Anybody else looking forward to this again?
Be safe. Have fun. Oh, and get outside while you still can!
Best Regards,
Derek
An excellently novel idea! Not sure what I would use it for, but it’s there. I can compile a program, run it, edit it in vi, and do all sorts of stuff. What would you find useful about having a Linux shell in a browser?
I ran across this page when searching for best compression tool for plain text files. Thought it was well done and good enough to share.
http://blog.terzza.com/linux-compression-comparison-gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-lzma-vs-zip-vs-compress/
I’ll make your Monday morning easy thinking and present a little video I enjoy from time to time.
I’m with him. Being a person who has gone through the Cisco Networking Academy to learn about network engineering, the buzzword “Cloud Computing” is totally overrated. I sorta giggle inside every time I hear about it and I stop and think “it’s just Ethernet and computers”.
Looking for more reading material to quench the thirst for Linux knowledge? If so, take a look at the book called “The Art of Unix Programming” by Eric S. Raymond. You can find it online here:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
When chatting with non-Linux folks about Linux, the question that normally comes up is “why are they [the developers] doing all of this for free?”. Up until a few days ago, I didn’t really understand it myself, so I had difficulties in explaining it. I stumbled upon the following video which might give an explanation to that question:
Now, whenever somebody asks, I’ll be able to simply point ‘em to the video (or paraphrase it)! I found it to be easy to understand and fun to watch. I hope you enjoyed it as well. RSA Animate did a good job on this one.
I ran across this video the other day and wanted to share with everyone. Think of it as a light way to start off your week without having to think. Enjoy!
James over at http://dazzle.cs.mcgill.ca has come across a humorous, and frightening, Linux command. It’s been dubbed “The Most Dangerous Command”. Take a look! It makes rm -rf / seem like a PG rated horror film…
http://dazzle.cs.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=36
It turns out that your web browser might be unique enough that it can be tracked. Take a break and check out this webpage:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Update: I have written it and scheduled it for Monday. It’ll show up here for those of you who are impatient.
Hello All,
I just wanted to let you know that I’m skipping a day so I can start working on getting a semi-formal review for how Fedora 13 runs on the MacBook Aluminum for Monday. See ya’ll then!
-Derek
PS. For those of you wanting to play along, you’ll need to add the following line to the end of the bootup options (press Tab on the main boot screen):
updates=http://people.fedoraproject.org/~jwrdegoede/updates-572488
(via bugzilla.redhat.com)