Perl is evil
What other language would let you do this? ''=~( '(?{' .('`' |'%') .('[' ^'-') .('`' |'!') .('`' |',') .'"'. '\\$' .'==' .('[' ^'+') .('`' |'/') .('[' ^'+') .'||' .(';' &'=') .(';' &'=') .';-' .'-'. '\\$' .'=;' .('[' ^'(') .('['...
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...
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...
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...
My latest article on Linux.com
Linux.com | Creating virtual private networks with tsocks and VTun
OS X Cisco VPN restart
Will have to remember to try this next time the Cisco VPN software craps out on me with the good ol' "Error 51: Unable to communicate with the vpn subsystem". This looks like it may be a lot more convenient than my previous hack....
FlyakiteOSX
Some really cool AJAXy stuff on this site, doing an impressive emulation of the OS X interface. You just have to see this to believe it. FlyakiteOSX Found this here....