Kaboot was mentioned in this weeks Gentoo Linux newsletter; it’s a Gentoo Live CD distro. It comes in several versions, including one specifically designed for recovery; sounds worth checking out.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
This fellow has set up a USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID with 5 floppy drives on Mac OS X. Nice. If you happen to want 3.9 MB (per his results) of not-too-portable superfast (for a floppy) disk space, maybe this is for you. ;-) Or maybe if you just want to say you did it, which is the only real point…
I‘m an unabashed fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, of productivity sites like 43folders, of books like Time Management for System Administrators.
Like a lot of people out there, I find myself implementing bits and pieces of some of these systems; whether from laziness, utility, impatience, or some combination thereof. One of the things I’ve found to work well is simply making better lists.
Well, it’s official. I haven’t written about it, because I don’t use this page as a “journal” per se, and also because I hate forecasting things prematurely; in this case, this has been in the works since November, and has just taken awhile to finalize.
I have been offered a position at Oracle, which I’ll be accepting. It will be a pretty big change, but one I’ve looked forward to for awhile now. I’ll be doing Tech Support; I’m not going to be writing about anything specifically work-related here (as that’s generally Not A Good Thing To Do™), but I expect that I will be writing more about tech support, customer service, and time management in general. Otherwise nothing on this site will change much.
As a result of this announcement, the price of Oracle’s stock has not varied, neither has a press release been issued.
So much for the brief foray into my personal doings. Back to the internet with you all, nothing more to see here.
I went and installed Gentoo Linux on my desktop yesterday — again. Nothing against Arch Linux, I found it worked quite well, actually. I missed Gentoo, though; I’ve used it for over two years now, I think, and I know it inside and out. It’s not perfect, but it’s close.
The new install CD is quite spiffy; I highly recommend it.
Now I need to spend time getting everything working again… ;-) But it’s fun now getting annoying. Edit: Hmm. Gentoo is being a little more quirky this time; either that, or I’m just becoming less patient over time. Sound is behaving badly (it works in some areas, not in others), a few apps have not been stable… so I may test around a bit again. I’m downloading a plain debian iso right now. I may also try Fedora again, just to see how it’s changed. I would consider Xandros, but I don’t want KDE (sorry, KDE fans).
If you’ve looked at Technorati in the last few days, you’ve probably seen that the word “brrreeeport” has been garnering a whole lot of searches. What could this mean, you wonder? If you do the search, it seems to be some sort of weird geeky social experiment. How, you may ask, could this have started?
I wouldn’t have guessed it, but Robert Scoble is messing with the man. Yes, he has been wantonly encouraging bloggers to put nonsense words in their blogs, with no regard for the well-being of the world wide web.
This is where I should make some profound remarks about the power of networking, or how nifty the Internet is, or something like that. Of course, by posting about the phenomenon (which, I expect, is winding down about now… apparently I should read Scoble more often, this started on Monday the 13th), I’ve inadvertently become part of it. Something about the loopiness of that is appealing to me.
This seems more like something you might see on Boingboing, but it’s pretty cool. Manholes of Japan, via reddit.
Some of the manhole covers on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis are fairly ornate, also; not so colorful as these, though.
I installed Internet Explorer Beta 2 at work today. We had the executable for the installer just sitting there, so I figured I’d install it, if for no other reason than that it will eventually become the current version, and being in Tech Support, I would be better off knowing its nuances.
By way of a follow-up regarding the “missing feature” I proposed for either del.icio.us or ma.gnolia… Ma.gnolia developer David Fayram commented, pointing me to the Snap Mark (found on the ma.gnolia bookmarklets page) as at least a partial incarnation of the feature I was requesting.
I just undertook the effort (a few seconds worth of it, anyways) to test this bookmarklet out.
It is seriously slick.
A few thoughts:
- While I realize that it is non-trivial to attempt to add a “tag guestimating” feature to something like this, it would be nice. The practical reality is that I am not likely to ever go back and spend time adding tags to my bookmarks.
- I can see the reasoning behind the “Your bookmark has been added” pop-up, though I don’t know that I need it. I may look at the code of the bookmarklet link and try to eliminate this, or shorten the duration from 3 seconds to 1 second. I guess I’m just used to Linux-type systems, where getting no feedback from a command means that it worked… ;-)
- Okay, I guess I only had a couple thoughts.
Epsilon-Delta, a mathematics/programming blog, has An Analysis of Democratically Ordered Link Sites.
Very interesting stuff. I can’t say for sure, but I don’t think it would be too hard to follow even if math is not your thing.
