Forgive a little geeking out, but there is now a fully-redundant — and I do mean “fully,” as in “you can take a hammer to one of the motherboards or just yank a RAM chip and it will survive and stay up” — Linux server. The more things change, the more they stay the [...]
I used to name my cars. Pibroch was my 1980 Bonneville Brougham, followed by Felix (my ‘71 GMC pickup), Lucille (Plymouth Horizon), Eponine (Geo Metro, and one of my all-time favorite cars), and Alberich (’86 Olds Delta 88).
Since then I’ve driven a 1999 Olds Alero. And to be honest, I haven’t named it.
My [...]
Let’s try typing something. This is fairly pleasant. It will be hard to get used to not using Emacs keys, though. The LCD display seems slow from this angle, but this is most likely the angle I’d be using on the bus, so I guess this is all right.
I can read it [...]
Because I feel like a (geeky) love song is in order:
(Also available to download as a WMV file here.)
HT: TJIC.
I think it’s cool that I scored higher in history/lit than in computers.
From In the Beginning was the Command Line, but I found it via Tim Bray:
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it [...]
I just got this from a “Unix guru” tip list. How to copy a number of lines from one file to another using vi, the standard Unix/Linux editor:
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