- best practices – What sysadmin things should every programmer know? – Server Fault
This is all good stuff.
- Meshu – Welcome
Personalised jewellery made from location based data, including direct links with Foursquare checkins. Lovely.
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
Er, yes, this exactly.
- Netherlands rejects Acta, and forbids any similar legislation (Wired UK)
Well done, the Dutch. Now we can only hope that our mob of cretins will temporarily locate enough spine to do the same…
Tag: sysadmin
Bookmarks for June 25, 2008
- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now… - YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.
- TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.
- firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!
Bookmarks for June 19, 2008
- Lessons from My Father: The Outlaw
I finished “Gonzo”, a collection of recollections of Hunter S Thompson by those who knew him, on the bus this morning, so it was quite nice find this in one of my RSS feeds this morning – a short essay by his son about the things he learned from the man.
- 5 simple ways to troubleshoot using Strace
My colleague on the usefulness of strace. Of absolutely no interest if you’re not a developer working on linux-based systems, don’t even bother looking. If you on the other hand, you meet that description, you should read this