20070622

22 jun 2007

Last time I had to quit Firefox, I had something like 50 open tabs, so this is clearly long overdue…

I'm not really a podcast person, but I have been digging the KPunk shows, which lead me to this trippy video. No idea what the guy is saying, but it's entertaining. He also dropped this great acoustic cover of Straight Outta Compton. Yes, acoustic.
Gas::Prices
Brtfs
Google has some configuration management thing called "Slack". I looked for the download a while ago and couldn't find it, but it was pointed to on some mailing list I'm on. So, here's the Slack project page. Why that's not on a Google URL when they've apparently done presentations about it at meetings, who knows.
Doctorow's "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" wins Locus award -- linking it here because of the acceptance speech: "Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, our tireless morlocks who keep the entire universe running. The best sysadmins I've met treat their jobs as holy callings. They understand that they're keeping the infrastructure of the information age alive and functional."
nBox -- for work
Create local Yum repo -- also for work
Nature Precedings: Early Access to Scientific Results
HOWTO knit a baby viking helmet
Asshole driven development
Mark Atwood - What is the Next Big Thing? (via Dan) It may play out this way at smaller scales, but I think anybody who has a lot of servers now (and actually legitimately uses the cycles) is still going to have a lot of servers in the future. Locality trumps the grid.
Perhaps I could describe what I'm feeling right now as "sudden heat."
Antibacterial products may be bad news -- and the microbiologists go "DUH!"
Gordon Lee trial date set; Comic Book Legal Defense Fund needs help -- Gordon Lee is being prosecuted for giving an "obscene" comic book to a minor.
Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch -- no controlling legal authority? oh, wait...