Nice big pile of links this week.  Enjoy the reading, especially if you’re still recovering from St. Patrick’s Day festivities.  (does that happen outside of the U.S.?)

• I like this “Insufficiently known POSIX shell features” item, because too many of the shell tutorials out there assume you have bash.  (via)
• The decline and fall of disk storage prices, summarizing this. Oh, I hope this trend continues. (via)
• Michael Lucas’s disaster and recovery with OpenBSD.
• Sometimes the Internet produces things I can’t ever have thought would exist.  Loom-weaved reproductions of Apple 2 game loading screens, complete with crack notice.  The image linked is Castle Smurfenstein.  (via)
• I had no idea how much DNS prefetching could affect the network. (via)
• Saved Google searches for DragonFly sometimes turn up things I didn’t know about.  For example, it appears DragonFly is regularly tested in FFmpeg builds.  That’s great!  I  mentally expect to be left out.
• Open source work == more job opportunities. (via)   This is absolutely true, and not just talking about Web 2.0 style companies.  I recently hired a junior admin at my workplace.  I went through I think 80 resumes and a pile of phone and in-person interviews; if even one of them had listed open-source work, they would have moved to the front of the line – just because it meant they did more.
• PGCon 2011 is coming up, for Postgres users – conveniently right after BSDCan 2011, and in the same location, which is because Dan Langille is working on both.
• Remember how XFCE only supports udev on Linux and nothing else, because it’s too hard to follow the conflicting and changing plans on Linux device support?   There’s larger messes.  (via this and that)  I would suggest that when an organization says “There’s a problem here and that’s the way this works” instead of “There’s a problem; let’s adapt and fix” is a sign of stagnation.