Perl

Perl is evil

What other language would let you do this? ''=~( '(?{' .('`' |'%') .('[' ^'-') .('`' |'!') .('`' |',') .'"'. '\\$' .'==' .('[' ^'+') .('`' |'/') .('[' ^'+') .'||' .(';' &'=') .(';' &'=') .';-' .'-'. '\\$' .'=;' .('[' ^'(') .('['...
LinuxUbuntu

Automatix for Ubuntu

I've been running Ubuntu Dapper Drake for several days now, but I had never bothered to plug in my speakers and see if sound worked. I plugged in the speakers and holy crap, the sound worked straight away without me having to...
General

Furniture shopping is hard

We spent another weekend this last weekend furniture shopping. Sheesh, we must've been to 50 stores already and still haven't found nice, simple bedroom furniture that we like. It's amazing how much ugly stuff is out there. This...
Linux

Inside the Linux boot process

IBM developerWorks has a nice article called Inside the Linux boot process that gives a nice high-level overview of the various stages of booting a Linux kernel from the BIOS to the MBR to GRUB to decompressing and loading the...