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2006-11-28 fancy a change
Linux is getting too boring, interesting article here: dump linux now.
again with the urxvt
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @tints = qw( green red blue yellow grey purple magenta );
my $a = rand(scalar(@tints));
my $cmd = "urxvt -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-110-*-*-c-*-*-* -ip -tint % -sh 40 -fg white";
my $pid = fork();
if( $pid == 0 ) {
$cmd =~ s/%/$tints[$a]/g;
exec($cmd);
}
Simple, but satisfying.
2006-11-26 urxvt
It's bugged me for a while, but today I've decided to join the urxvt club. I've drunk the kool-aid, and here is my current init script.
urxvt -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-110-*-*-c-*-*-* -ip -tint green -sh 40 -fg white
... and prior to urxvt i was using aterm like this ...
aterm +sb -tr -sh 40 -fade 60 -fg white -sl 1000 -sr
2006-11-23 proxy lists
It's quite useful to maintain my own list of proxy servers. Thanks to the brilliance of the perl scripting language I can test them all hourly. I know other languages can do this too, but perl, well it's just something else :) so effortless to do these things. The perl linguistics are excellent. Here is a link to the final page all about proxys.
2006-11-21 novell and microsoft
So much has been said recently about the Novell/Microsoft devil alliance that could be misinterpreted. Although some questions go unanswered, why did Novell make this move, do they intend to alienate the rest of the community, are they planning on submitting changes that are IP of MS/Novell?
Novell have released a open letter to the community to state their intentions and what the agreement was about. I believe this letter was prepared before the agreement, and this has been released at a time suitable to Novell. Not to mention that they now have the press office of MS behind them.
2006-11-15 worth a read
A good friend sent me this link. I think it's a great read. Especially since it's about the 'user friendly' operating system. how to install windows xp in 5 hours or less.
2006-11-01 openbsd 4.0
Yes, that's right it's the first of the month, OpenBSD4.0 is now out. Here's the obligatory 'make n bake' script to press your own CD. Please note, if you like OpenBSD I strongly recommend purchasing a t-shirt/poster/book/CD set from the OpenBSD site, it is a very good OS to use and work with.
mkdir -p OpenBSD/4.0/i386 cd OpenBSD/4.0/i386 wget -c ftp://ftp.jyu.fi/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/* cd ../../../ mkisofs -r -b 4.0/i386/cdrom40.fs -c "boot.catalog" -o ~/cd.iso OpenBSD cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 driveropts=burnfree ~/cd.iso