September 2008 Archives

I'm not quite sure what to think of this one, so I'll let you decide for yourself.
One of the stranger music videos I've seen in a while...



GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO - BIGGER AND RUSSIANER from Tom Stern on Vimeo.

Just got handed this little baby to testdrive for something at work.

My first instinct was to rip the too-pretty interface off, and install Debian.
Then I realised that it wasn't mine, and I'd just have to pretend to be a normal user on this one...

Here are the specs of the little beasty (from the side of the box)
Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6Ghz
8.9" CrystalBrite WSVGA
512MB DDR2 RAM
8GB Solid State Disk
Multi-in-1 Card reader (looks like SD, XD, MS, MSPro)
10/100 LAN
802.11b/g Wifi
Linux Linpus OS (based on Fedora 8)

Yeah... Thats what I thought.

What the hell America? Is this what you have to offer?
European Scientists are smashing atoms apart, and you guys are running around breaking into houses and slapping people with sausages.

"A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed food seasoning over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man on the face and head before running out of the house, Fresno County sheriff's deputies said Saturday."

And what makes it even better, is that the suspect left his wallet with ID in the victims house...

Just came across this today... Really useful, since 90% of my job requires SSHing off to remote hosts...

From drawohara:

Stick this in your ~/.bashrc

SSH_COMPLETE=( $(cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | \
cut -f 1 -d ‘ ’ | \
sed -e s/,.*//g | \
uniq | \
egrep -v [0123456789]) )
complete -o default -W "${SSH_COMPLETE[*]}" ssh

This does a lookup for all the hosts in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, as a source for the autocompletion.

Jawug got a mention in todays ZA Tech Show podcast.

At 45 minutes, they stray onto the topic of Wireless User Groups.

Just a note to people who listened to it, WUGs are legal, as long as they don't provide internet access, and don't make a profit. This has been acknowledged by ICASA (not just ICASA turning a blind eye to it)
The WUG guys actually went to ICASA for a hearing, and this was the outcome.