For the second year in a row Ted Walther (formerly known as Jonathan Walther) runs as a candidate in Debian Project Leader (DPL) elections. Last year “None of the above” got more voter support then Ted. Inside the Debian project he is used as a poster boy for chauvinistic, racist and rude behavior on a [...]
Yesterday my server went down again. This time it was a combination of hardware and software. On software side my Reizerfs filesystem got corrupted in a funny way – I could not delete some files under /var. Those were files modified after a specific time yesterday, but the effect was only local to /var directory [...]
Jordi was searching for a good mouse for a left-handed person. Behold the new Logitech MX610 laser mouse that has a special leftie version planned with the same cost as a rightie version. Preorder and enjoy!
I have recently come across the TUX Magazine and have subscribed to this free downloadable PDF magazine. A couple days ago the issue number 11 came out with some great articles that I would like to comment on. Note: after I implement a break feature in my blog, the line above will turn into a [...]
I just discovered Pandora. It is a online flash streaming music player that plays the music that you like much like last.fm radio, just simpler and with instant feedback. You simply go to the site and tell them what artist or track do you like and the music starts playing in a Flash applet. Then [...]
Hospitals overcharging uninsured people http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/02/60minutes/main1362808.shtml The bulk of the story in not really that hospitals make uninsured people pay more, it is that they make insurers pay less. It looks like it is common practice in US hospitals to charge their patients for work and materials with 300-500% profit margin. Only most of the country [...]
Blogging this week seem to be on a high wave for me. Which, as I previously noted, is correlated with my general level of activity. So this blob post is my braindump about 2006 Academy Awards ceremony a.k.a Oscars 2006. First of all – I love John Steward and watch “The Daily Show” daily. Opening [...]
If one of your crontab entries is not running lately without any errors, check if you have a newline at the end of the crontab, because if you do not, then the last job will never be executed and no error will be reported anywhere: 79037 (and possibly cause of 260789) Oh and it will [...]
Today I was chatting with my friends (Coced and Livespirit), we were discussing effective use of time when I was describing my food preparation habits. Coced started describing his daily morning routine as an example of time-effective food consumption routine. Then we decided to blog our food rhythms and crosslink those posts. So here goes [...]
Following up on my own review of the DPL platforms I give the review of the latecomer – the platform of Andreas Schuldei: Andreas Schuldei abstract and TOC present – feels a bit more professional purpose-drive and predictable, with the purpose being having fun – sound much more balanced then some other approaches, hopefully not [...]
