"Last Post"

Seeing as LJ hasn't been maintained and no longer has functional RSS service (background: see JWZ's comments on the subject), there is unfortunately no reason to use the service anymore. I guess everybody's attention span as been burned out completely form idiotic 140 character limits and mind-numbing, sociopathic "games" to want to ( Read more... )

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exhibit A   "ummm.... what?"

exhibit B   "...the fsck?!"

exhibit C   "what is this I don't even-"

This is the most incredible piece of music software that I have eever seen. It's frighteningly close to some of the ideas I've been (unsucssfully) trying to implement for the last decade or so. The most telling similarity is is how it's very careful about keepign thins specificed in the abstract, even after processing them with layer after layer ( Read more... )

# for i in /dev/sd{a..f} ; do echo $i $(smartctl -a $i | grep
Reallocated_Sector_Ct | cut -c 88-); done

/dev/sda 1
/dev/sdb 0
/dev/sdc 8
/dev/sdd 0
/dev/sde 0
/dev/sdf 158Oh my. A disk is about to fail horribly. 158 reallocated bad sectors. Good thing /dev/sd{e,f} are a RAID1....

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http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html

This is the core of RMS's arguments for Free Software over the last several decade, but Doctorow's version is probably easier to parse for the average non-techie.

"In Russia, we spray pepper on food given to us by the government."
"In Totalitarian America, government pepper sprays you!"

"America: What a country!"

Sigh. LiveJournal eats a bunch of this when I tried to post it, and the different stylesheet eats the rest. But even though it doesn't look like it's supposed to (compare: original renderng), it's still pretty coll for nothing more than HTML and UTF-8.  Now to see if i can get some sleep before ZALGO eats me.

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