First, some background for the non-technical among you. A window manager is a piece of software that controls the windows on your computer. It will do things like placement, drawing, keybinding, et cetera. If you’re on Windows or Mac OS X, you have a window manager built-in to your operating system and cannot easily change [...]
Archive of posts filed under the misc tech category.
Fishbots
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing from a number of “Fishbots”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, well, there’s this service called Project Upstream which runs a network of AIM bots with names like ThemedSalmon and “SweptCoho”. The idea behind these bots seems to be that they collect AIM nicks [...]
It’s a meme!
On Planet Debian, machines name you. But we don’t live there.
So, apparently this is a meme
Everybody in my RSS feed list is doing it. So why shouldn’t I?
(no, it’s not the exact same line. close enough)
% history 1 |awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head -n 20
140 cd
67 sudo
59 vim
52 mplayer
51 svn
47 rm
43 ls
33 eix
29 xsnap
29 wmiir
24 mv
22 cp
15 ps
15 killall
14 ssh
12 xset
12 history
11 man
11 evince
10 [...]
A brief thought on the new Microsoft "Interoperability" documents
If you haven’t seen the recent Microsoft Interoperability announcement, I suggest you read it. It’s been Slashdotted, so I figure there’s a decent chance that everybody on the Internet has seen it already. This is, of course, an extension of the Microsoft Office Binary Formats release of a few days ago, and I’m equally leery [...]
