Month: January 2012

Happy new year!  Regular posting should resume soon now that my holidays are over.

• I like the line, “Please note that BSD manpages are usually better as compare to Linux” [sic] found on this odd page of where to find documentation.
• Hey, this encryption of DNS requests is a good idea.  Then again, so is DNSSEC.  I’ve done neither.
• Stop using GoDaddy, if you can.  There’s plenty of reasons, other than support for SOPA.
• There’s got to be at least one reader who gets this joke.
• If you don’t mind digging through all the comments in this Slashdot article about building a desktop environment, there’s some neat descriptions of different window managers and so on.
• A mild brain teaser to start the year: a regular expression to find prime numbers.
• This is a nice description of just what the Archive Team does.  (via)
• The Coming War on General Purpose Computing.  Sometimes the stuff on BoingBoing gives me the same irritated feeling as sensationalistic Wired articles, but this one is good to read if you happen to be working on your own operating system.  Also, the similar thing with APIs.
• This “best tech writing of 2011” summary on Verge (via) led me to this excellent article: “The Web Is a Customer Service Medium“.  There’s lots more reading in that summary.
• I’ve seen this mentioned before, but now it’s with a graph so it’s better!  On the continuing decline of the GPL.
• OK, I admit graphs are not always a good idea.  (via)
• Trivium, from which I yoinked that last link, also has an blog from its author, Chris Neukirchen.  It’s not updated often but there’s some entertaining sysadmin tidbits on there, such as going all-ed, or zsh tips, or Why I use the MIT license.

Your completely unrelated link of the day: Tiny Legs of Fire.  (video) Worth it for the origin of Beardslap.

 (Sorry about the giant text block.  This isn’t as readable as I’d like.)