castanyes blaves
Random ramblings about some random stuff, and things; but more stuff than things -- all in a mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic soapbox-like flow of words.3/30/2006
Dishwashers
3/29/2006
If you haven't read dilberblog yet, there are some really funny posts there:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/03/sleep.html
3/26/2006
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=426&num=1
3/25/2006
-c checksum
rsync -avc --progress --stats username@ip.com/path/to/file /path/to/destination/file
3/24/2006
When you combine people and technology, you have a very powerful combination.
Tommy Hilfiger reading statements from a TelePrompter at a Microsoft Demo.
One thing seems certain: Linux usage is about to explode, thanks to the Sony PlayStation 3--analysts expect Sony to sell 200 million of them, which means 200 million Linux computers in the hands of mostly young people (between 5 and 18 years old). This is phenomenal, and is perhaps the best possible way to push Linux into the mainstream.
http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6514
3/22/2006
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/downloads/geek-to-live-mastering-wget-161202.php
Leaner:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935
More complete:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen
3/21/2006
...at least for the moment
I have been using the 0.2.3-0ubuntu2 version,
that should have the memory hog problem fixed, and it seems so!
3/20/2006
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/NVIDIA_drivers_with_Red_Hat_Linux.html
3/19/2006
it will bork your sudo configuration
3/18/2006
If you get a "/dev/dsp" busy:
sudo chmod 666 /dev/dsp
will help.
3/17/2006
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/content-8.html
Some expertise and cutlery needed...
3/16/2006
# Choose the "Manually edit partition table" option.
# Choose the NTFS partition you want to resize.
# Choose the "Size:" line.
# Choose
# Enter the new size.
# Please wait patiently until the resize process frees the needed space for Ubuntu installation.
3/15/2006
Hybrid Hoax
http://www.forbes.com/manufacturing/2006/03/14/toyota-honda-hybrid-cz_ae_0315beltway.html?partner=rss
This means, perversely, that some small hybrids--like Honda Motor's (nyse: HMC - news - people ) Insight with a manual transmission, which gets 60 miles per gallon (city)--probably won't qualify at all. But a big hybrid SUV, like the Mariner from Ford Motor's (nyse: F - news - people ) Mercury division, which gets just 33 miles per gallon (city), could get a big credit (estimated at $1,950) based on its MPG edge over its gas-guzzling brethren.
UK's first bioethanol pump opens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4808244.stm
The £20m plant at Wissington, Downham Market in Norfolk, aims to produce 70m litres of biofuel per year from sugar beet grown by farmers in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.
3/14/2006
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/02/defeating_terro.html
Dilbert Blog makes another great simple point about an issue that is being given to us as very complicated and potentially misleading: oil and terror.
and one of the reader has a good point here:
But does any of that affect terrorism. Only in a roundabout way. If we don?t depend on their supplies of oil, we would be less reluctant to tell them what to do with their fanatical ideas. But they?d still have them.
But the whole point can be taken under a lot of more serious terms :-p
3/11/2006
What happened in Madrid...
what happened in London...
what happened in New York...
... should make us realize that live is too simple to make it complicated.
3/09/2006
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060306/full/nbt0306-232.html
When oil prices rise above $50 dollars a barrel, ethanol starts to compete with oil, regardless of the impact on carbon emissions.
bqueues | awk '{ sum += $10; print sum; }' | tail -n 1
3/08/2006
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1942&application=firefox
for Firefox 1.5 - 1.5.0.*
3/07/2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/4782108.stm
In a recent message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity, Inc. announced an internal framework to continually scan open source projects for source defects and provide the results of their analysis back to the developers of those projects. The linux kernel is one of 32 open source projects monitored by Coverity. Coverity is looking for a few group-nominated maintainers to access the reports, in order to patch the bugs found before they are announced to the general public. For those not familiar with Coverity, they are a small company out of Stanford who monitor source code correctness through automatic static source code analysis."
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/1521223&from=rss
3/05/2006
Anglia Weather forecast
Very cold in the last five or six days
Winter's final fling?
Windy: cold blast of arctic weather
Tomorrow Monday it's going to be the last very cold day. Hopefully of the whole Winter... welcome Spring time!!
Some rain on Tuesday.
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