There are entire fields of study and people dedicated to just..designing things. And their work is immensely important and wide-reaching. And all sorts of these people and others work together to create these awesome things. And there are users who just don't give a shit that that effort is spent at all ( Read more... )

So, I don't usually watch non-US/South Korean TV and movies, but this is a massive exception ( Read more... )

Did you strip for CSS Naked Day 2008?

Unfortunately it's not so easy on Livejournal, but janeylicious.com is totally naked now :O ( Read more... )

jane@serenity:~ $ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -nr|head -n 15
194 ssh
60 cd
55 ls
22 lsof
21 nmap
20 sudo
14 screen
14 pkg-config
12 find
12 echo
11 svn
9 cal
9 scp
8 open
7 uptime

I find that somewhat bizarre...I don't ever remember using pkg-config.

And i'm surprised kill/killall didn't make the list :p ( Read more... )

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So, me and my mom are looking for businesses and/or property for sale and lease and have been for a while. Obviously a lot of stuff gets done over email and I didn't want to spam my personal inbox or my mom's, so I created one email account we could both use. Emails get forwarded to my gmail account and labeled accordingly (which works great for ( Read more... )

Hmm, I realized I have zero patience to do SoC for the ideas I had that would have been somewhat acceptable. I guess it doesn't help a lot of it was that really tedious and boring stuff. If I could find some interesting thing to work on I might.. I might change my mind in the next week (extended deadline..although I thought it was an april fools ( Read more... )

I've been reading http://manybooks.net/titles/schroederkother07Ventus.htmlIf you read the novel, there's this bit where communication happens and things are controlled via the equivalent of modern day encryption and password protection schemes. Basically all communication is signed - some sort of key is required to decrypt the message, each ( Read more... )

Okay, so somehow noonebutme mentioned an xkcd comic with knuth and the talk went to TAoCP and then to books in general ( Read more... )

I saw on /. today that they announced the list of participating orgs for summer of code 2008. sadly, irssi is not one of them :( However, I did read this:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=490744&cid=22780538Sure, it's a bit bitter at the rejection of that person's project, but after looking at the list, can't help but wonder why some ( Read more... )