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Byobu shows me next meeting
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 15:10 | by nixternalHave I ever told you all how much I love byobu? I have always used screen, though I really never tweaked it all crazy like many did. Recently I typed screen at the command line and I was presented with this thing called byobu. I went ahead and gave it a shot, and at first I will say I was rather annoyed with the bar at the bottom of my screen, and my scrollwheel didn’t work with byobu the way it did with screen. I went ahead and changed my workflow in order to get used to byobu.
Security Theatre, the Orange Edition
Sun, 12/27/2009 - 23:28 | by mishehuI like how the authors at Debka summed it up:
“The horrendous sight of another Western airline crashing over the US on Christmas Day 2009 was averted by a fluke and the resourcefulness of passengers and cabin crew – not by the anti-terror agencies’ high-tech gadgets, vast budgets and airport security measures.”
Now let’s look at this next posting, this time from Slashdot:
Security Theatre
Sat, 12/26/2009 - 23:57 | by mishehuI’m just trying to reconcile this… I cannot bring a bottle of water past a security checkpoint anytime I wish to fly, but a man somehow sets off a “small explosive device” on a Delta Airlines flight between Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Detroit? I’ve even had bottles of water that I had with me on El Al flights confiscated from me in Newark…
Shouldn’t airplane security focus on real security and not things that give the misperception of security?
Calling on DJB
Fri, 12/18/2009 - 15:31 | by mishehuPerhaps you’ve used his software before. Perhaps you know it’s a little “funky” in design, because DJB does things his way. But this is not to say that his software is faulty. Unfortunately, though, he is not known as one who updates his software to fix bugs or add new functionality to them.
Everyone is late to the game
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:53 | by nixternalLast night as I went to bed, I turned on the television to see what was on. This is typically the way I fall asleep. I came across this movie titled, “The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest” from 2002. In this movie, 4 researches split off from some big research company to create a $99 PC. Where have I heard that one before? Oh, they were only off by a $1. Then, in order to make this $99 PC, they had to get rid of so much, they got rid of things such as:
A Few Random Thoughts
Mon, 12/14/2009 - 02:28 | by mishehuI’m up later than I probably should be tonight, but as I’m trying to wind down to go to sleep, some thoughts have been running through my mind. On the heels of this article, I am once again reminded about the issue of Net Neutrality. While I am completely for the concept of Net Neutrality in the sense that I think it should be illegal for the pipeline provider to reclassify your packets, there is one single edge case that comes to my mind that is not like the others.
RE: SSH Tab Complete
Sat, 12/05/2009 - 16:47 | by nixternalThis is a response to SSH Tab Complete by Michael Lustfield.
Create a ~/.ssh/config file and populate it with configurations. Doing this is the only step you need to do, and you don’t need to add anything to your ~/.bashrc. Example ~/.ssh/config:
Achtung
Wed, 12/02/2009 - 22:43 | by mishehuThis review is a little late, considering that Wolfenstein (2009) has been out for at least a few months now. I was still weighing in on the game, so I couldn’t really decide how to review it. The envelope has been pushed and I definitely have formed my opinion now.
OMFGWTFBBQ! No more Gimp?
Thu, 11/26/2009 - 23:40 | by nixternalSeriously, is removing Gimp from a default install of Ubuntu that bad? Bad enough for you to leave Ubuntu for some other distribution? I have been reading blog posts, news sites, blog comments, IRC, Twitter, and Identi.ca, and what I am seeing simply amazes me. Thus far, the popular topic to these complaints is that Ubuntu is making the desktop even dumber. So, if Ubuntu is making the desktop dumber, I guess in the past it has made many lazier? I mean, installing Gimp isn’t a big deal. I am a Kubuntu user, and KDE user of other distros, and none off the top of my head include Gimp.
