Futurama in a header

For those of you fortunate to have something unix-y:

lynx -dump -head http://slashdot.org | grep "\(X-Fry\|X-Bender\)"

Now *that's* funny.

Formatting and Hello

Hello to pictures on my blog. ::Dance::
With that said in order to get comments to work, I'm going to have to go with one of the newer templates. Yuck. Oh well, I'd really like to have someone tell me that this or that is neat or not. . .

Zelda the Return

Here are some hard core folks. I mean super hard core. And they are into zelda. Well not so much the original game but taking the concepts of the character and making new legend of zeldas in the old NES sense of the word. It's just too cool. You know, I'm not really sure where I got this link from but it could have been Slashdot. A lot of the neat things I find there tend to make their way to this blog.

Oops

Yeah looks like orison is indeed a prayer. A fervent prayer, to a deity. So OnyxOrison would be a black prayer. Ick. Hm, I need to find someone to blame this on. Oh wait, just me. Definition is right here.

Yet another linux

You know, one would think that people would get sick of seeing new linux's all the time. Not me. Ubuntu is just one sort of linux. It's Debian related so it's got that apt-get funkiness. Anything that comes with apt-get or yum by default is a-ok in my opinion. Well, it's not gentoo's portage, but there are so few perfect package managers out there. I *love* portage.

Opera

Normally I pimp Mozilla and FireFox. The thing is that they have stopped being able to be compiled for my machine at work. So I've started using Opera. It's pretty straightforward and much smaller than I would have though given that it does come with an email and irc client as well as a browser. It was under 3.8 MB and that's tiny even when compared to FireFox. Neat neat stuff.

Dice Pouches

This is a kick ass site. They sell custom made dice pouches. And they are not just for dice either. You can get them for cards as well. That was a neat ass idea.

Links that Are Important

• Google News


• Kevin, the Legend Continues


• Wil Wheaton, Linux Advocate


• DesignTechnica Reviews (eHome)

Well they are to me at least. WHenever you change your template on Blogger you lose that link section, esp if it doesn't exist in the new section. They just haven't been able to figure out how to parse the important parts out of a tinkered page. Can't say I blame them, esp with html.

My Son

Apple Stickers

Apple Stickers! For the geek that wants it all. Now if only someone would get me Thom's kick ass Ganesh sticker.

HashCash

No I don't think it'll go anywhere. But it's a neat idea. Ok, synopsis from freshmeat, people have to pay computationally to send you emails. Since cycles are finite, this creates an artificial economy [or an agreed upon economy] and therefore makes it "hard" to spam.

fwknop

This is a neat program that unlike some of the others doesn't require a seperate capture library. Instead it reads iptable log files and then can also do AES encrypted knocks or passive OS fingerprinting to insure that if a windows machine does a knock, it may or may not get in. It can be found here

FreeBSD release schedule

Ok the one that was put on the original FreeBSD release site was wrong. So for those of us that want to know when 5.3 final will be released here is the schedule. Not that it appears that a lot is going to change between now and when it's Finallized. But still.

Ruby on KDE

They are touting this as a Rapid Application Development platform. Heck anything that uses Ruby is automatically a rapid app. Just nice to see that someone else is using it for their work.

Farscape Super Airing

Yes, every single episode will be aired on the Sci-Fi channel. Announcement can be found here on a Sci-fi fan site. WHich inicidentally is where I get a lot of my nerd information.

Now *that's* a mushroom

Link Needless to say I wonder how long before someone tries to pollute it or kill it off.

Bitter? Yes. Far off? No.

Now that's a T-Shirt

Normally I don't do politics. Especially on a tech blog. But you know, civics being what they are these days, it always fun to at least poke fun. Oh and you can Buy it here.

Pictures

Here are some pictures of Colin, my brothers second baby. Both the touched up and the old blue pictures can be found there. Kind of nice to see that there isn't a new smurf in the family.

Oh and there are some background pictures here. All the abstract ones were made by myself, and are built to be tilleable. GIMP is your friend. Warning: Those pictures can be pretty large.

ZFS

Oh please, oh please let this be opensourced. I have asked for a lot in my life, but this is just too damn cool. Link

The nice thing is that an admin can add to the pool hither thither and yon. And not have to change anything for the end users. Also there isn't a /usr partition anymore. It's just another directory on the drive and as such can go "over limit". Man I would love to have this for work, so that when someone fills out the entire disk, we are all universally screwed until I flip on the hard drive adder switch....

Libre Clipart

"Open Source" Clipart Link

It's a good idea to check on things like freedesktop. This is the site for newer and neater ideas in desktops. Oh and Gnome 2.8 was released yesterdayish. And it looks pretty sweet. It has the Hardware Abstraction Layer integrated into it, so that when you plug in a usb drive or a cdrom it can insert the proper modules, or even start an application. Yeah yeah, Mac's already do this but it's nice to see that there is movement forward on a front that doesn't always require money to get the job done.