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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
New Release of Compiz
Compiz 0.7 has been released. Any guesses on when it’ll end up in the Gentoo repositories?
