March 2009
20 posts
Shameless Contest Entry →
Scott Bourne is giving away a Drobo on the Managing Your Digital Life blog. Seeing as I am one of the few folks left who apparently doesn’t have a Drobo, I’m following the rules and entering the contest.
That said, MYDL is pretty interesting.
AppViz - Ideaswarm →
SMC: The State Machine Compiler →
Hacker News | What's the best way to stay in a... →
Canadian Photography Laws (Ambientlight.ca) →
SourceForge.net: Supybot →
smuxi - Smart MUltipleXed Irc →
Saved for my own reference as much as anything. I was having a problem this morning on my Ubuntu x86-64 where I was getting nothing but a spinning cursor (the busy cursor) where I should have seen gdm. The problem was the HAL daemon (hald) wasn’t starting and I couldn’t figure out why. After digging through several bugs, this gem presented itself, and I tried the changed gdm script. It didn’t fix...
IconDock - The Art of Stock Icons →
“Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really...”
– How to be a program manager - Joel on Software
JS-909 →
(via Jack Shedd)
“Everything is negotiable. Except physics.”
– rands (via 43folders)
“If the universe was found to be finite or infinite, either discovery would be...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via mrgan) (via 43folders)
Top 10 Screensavers for the 21st Century →
“In the decades before 9/11, why did the airlines fight every security measure...”
– Schneier on Security: Perverse Security Incentives (via lkm)
After an excessive amount of time, I’ve released MIME::Types 1.16. The primary purpose of this release is compatibility with Ruby 1.9.1, but I haven’t ignored the latest IANA registered types. I have also picked up a few other types that others submitted as patches and scanned through the latest version (1.27) of the Perl MIME::Types library.
MIME::Types for Ruby allows for the identification of...
