This may or may not be interesting to any of you, but I’m writing about it at any event. Earlier today, I was browsing around Distrowatch.com, and I came across the FAQ. The 2nd to last question in the FAQ is as follows:
You list so many distributions. Which one do you use:
In [...]
I’m undergoing some site changes with this blog. Looking for a nice wide 2-column layout for Wordpress. I’ve stumbled on Minimalist Fever 1.21. It’s clean, simple and lean. It has a fluid width, which is a must for me, looks good in all browsers, and as such, works well with all [...]
Frankly, I can’t believe that 2007 is ending, and 2008 is just around the corner. It seemed like just yesterday that we had the Y2K scare that was the end-all of humanity as we knew it. 8 years later, computing has reached new heights, technology has soared, and Linux still remains a viable [...]
Happy Birthday to the GnuPG team and community. GnuPG turns 10 today! For those caught unaware, GnuPG was designed to be a Free Software implementation of PGP, removing the patented algorithms, such as RSA and IDEA, and replacing them with Free Software algorithms, such as Blowfish and ElGamal. Being a strong advocate [...]
Lately, I’ve had on my mind the desire to run different operating systems, other than Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve always had this weird interest in operating systems, so when I discovered Unix and Linux, it intrigued me to run them on my own system. Unix never went far, as the only “distro” I [...]
Dear Lazyweb-
On my 64-bit Debian systems, and my Ubuntu systems, as root, the command ‘lastb’ is returning nothing. Lastb should return all failed login attempts to STDOUT. In order to do so, it needs to read the /var/log/btmp file. Upon examination of this file, it is empty. This puzzles me, as [...]
One of the things that kept me going back to a GUI for IM over and over and over is the fact that my Jabber client of choice, namely Bitlbee, didn’t support multiuser chat (MUC). I had seen in the code commit logs that it had been added, but after downloading the development version [...]
I want to publicly apologize to my readers and to Google for my post regarding Google being evil. It was shortsighted and rash without level-headed thinking and clarity. I was misinformed, but had thought with Google supporting AIM that my gmail account could now login to AIM servers. In other words, I [...]
Here’s an interesting post from Coding Horror. Basically, describing whether the CAPTCHA is broken or if designers are just using sloppy methods. What I find interesting is software utilities designed to “break” the CAPTCHA. Looking at that post, Google, Yahoo! and Hotmail have unbroken CAPTCHAs. So, if the CAPTCHA was broken, [...]
I recently decided to reinstall my Wordpress blog with the SVN copy of the software. Because Wordpress does not support upgrading through the default install- a major hindrance, I’ve decided to keep my copy updated through SVN. This means that you need a working copy of SVN on your server. If running [...]
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BUGS
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
FLEAS
Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not work under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does work with the S-Lang [...]
By Google supporting AIM in their Google Talk messenger, Google is now officially evil based on the fact that it is now considered a multi-protocol client. Multiprotocol clients do nothing to increase Open Standards. In fact, they do the exact opposite by hindering instant messaging as a whole:
Multiprotocol clients are a curse for [...]
One of the big advantages of typing in the Dvorak layout is the comfort that comes with it. It is estimated that you spend nearly 70% of your time typing on the home row, with only 30% of your time stretching for letters off of the home row. If that’s the case, then [...]
Yesterday, I acquired a Sun Microsystems UltraSparc 10. What was the first thing I did? Put Linux on it of course. Debian Etch was the ultimate decision. Why not Ubuntu? I already have Dapper Drake powering my main server, so I thought I’d give Etch a try as a [...]
Sorry for the delay on getting around to this, but OpenID support is back up on my blog. I downloaded this plugin from the official WordPress plugin repository, which is an update of Will Norris’ plugin, which was forked from Alan Castonguay’s abandoned plugin.
At any event, users are encouraged to use OpenID when commenting [...]
