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{ Monthly Archives } March 2010

The Correct Recycling Symbol

I was just going through my Google Reader feeds, and stumbled upon a new concept for the Coca-Cola company in redesigning their soda bottles. The idea is rather ingenious. The bottles are reshaped to save on packing space, thus reducing the carbon footprint needed to ship the same amount of containers. They also feature a [...]

Connecting To Serial Null Modems With GNU Screen

The motivation for this post, actually, is that I had heard of the BSD-licensed tmux. I’ve heard it’s far more configurable than GNU screen and lighter on resources. So, I thought I’d install it on my Debian machine, and give it a quick test drive. The first thing I wanted to test, was not attaching [...]

Irssi Handling JOINS/PARTS/QUITS

Irssi, as blogged extensively throughout this site, is one solid client. The flexibility never ceases to amaze me, and tonight was one of those times. Hanging out in the amount of channels I do, I see a lot of activity in my statusbar for all of my joined channels. This can be overwhelming for some, [...]