I recently bought a laptop with a broken cdrom drive and this is how I’ve managed to put Ubuntu on it. The process is based on this tutorial on the official Ubuntu help site, although it differs slightly in software used and goes into more detail.
The Problem
I have a laptop I want […]
Happy sysadmin day to me: unofficial sysadmin of a bunch of random people! To celebrate, I retroactively dedicate last night’s party to us geeks who keep all your websites running without you knowing it. :-D
Eating steaks in Argentina feels like joining a cult. You find yourself leaning on friends to come visit, and writing YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND in all caps more often than feels comfortable. Argentine beef really is extraordinary. Almost all of this has to do with how the cows are raised. There are no factory feedlots […]
Alan fucking Turing it’s only 90 second videos, get over it you bunch of luddites.
If you elect to keep savings, far worse than having your good name tarnished, your time squandered or your assets drained is knowing that thieves will be having more fun with your identity than you do. They will get the biggest TV and the tiniest phones you’ve ever seen. They’ll all get LASIK surgery then […]
Did you know if you take Garfield out of Garfield… the comic strip is actually funny?
My favourites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Ok, maybe it isn’t funny, but it’s definitely better.
the car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicidesand a dark wind blows
the government is corrupt
and we’re on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn
we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible […]
I recently found myself with the need to get past the office firewall to listen to some last.fm tunage. To such end I created a ssh tunnel to my server and proceeded to configure the official last.fm player to work through the proxy. Imagine my surprise when it didn’t work! Shocked I was. Shocked […]
If all you need is read-only access to the latest posts and friends of a user without having to do all the authentication the official API requires you can always use this: http://www.livejournal.com/bots/. I found the link while inspecting the formatting of LiveJournal RSS feeds.
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