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Make your Mac sings
say -v Bad oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
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Make your Mac sings
say -v Bad oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
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I went back through the internal e-mails turned over in the antitrust suits against Microsoft, looking for new insights into Bill Gate’s personality. Read on for one of the gems that turned up, showing Gates in the role of chief rabble-rouser. It shows that even the Microsoft co-founder isn’t immune to the frustrations of everyday computer users
Actually, this e-mail is brilliant. I am happy to see that he gets it. I fear most executives are so isolated from the frustrations of the customer that they don't have the clue that he does. That said, the fact that there are still the…
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Just follow the link. It's a madlibs-esque form letter for Yahoo resignations amidts the chaos at that company.
For example, I found the recent advertising agreement reached with Google Mr. Yang's poisoning of the MSFT bid with disregard to his shareholders pretty much everything Terry Semel did to be unwiseill-advisedfucking retarded. Furthermore,…
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The History, Jokes, Easter Eggs and Comic Strips. The light side of Linux you didn’t know about.
Latest Posts: Installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC). Sometimes When I Wake Up: xkcd 3 Ways to Try Out Linux, For a Windows User Converting RPM to Debian Package and Vice Versa, Using Alien 5 Ways to Screencast Your Linux Desktop 10 Most…
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The AP’s getting played in their own game.
Well I think the old press is just on the verge of being supplanted by the blogosphere. I find more info that is not AP than is. As others have noted much of their material is originated elsewhere. I regularly am quoted by local media but have yet…
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Collection of angry, awkward and funny Twitter messages. Unfollow Me: Leo Laporte called for a boycott of Kevin Rose but later regretted it, as he was “drunk and out of control.”
It's hard to say who these tweets embarrass more — the people who wrote them or the people being impersonated.
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Itemize your hatred(or love!) for someone with this cool receipt generator.
What should you put in your custom receipt? It's up to you! The top of he receipt might give a store with a funny name, or perhaps a strange address. Put things you'd like to get, or give products crazy prices. Make a serious receipt, but…
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You're probably going to read this.
It's a short paragraph at the top of the page. It's surrounded by white space. It's in small type.
The really unforgivable sin of online journalism is explaining things through links. My rule: if the article doesn't make a point that I can decipher without clicking the blue text, then it's almost certainly not worth following through…
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Charlie Harvey explains mysterious reason behind this.
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to gnu@gnu.org. There are also other ways to contact the FSF. Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to webmasters@gnu.org.
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Most web pages are made up of HTML files linked to separate image files. Here's a way to embed an image directly into an HTML file.
However, it is the seed for a powerful tool. Combining table-based images with JavaScript opens the door to the creation and manipulation of dynamic content. Take a look at this simple example of a column of navigation buttons. Each of the…
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A flash simulation of a XP desktop that has books in the style of powerpoint presentations. You can read Animal Farm while it looks like a sales presentation.
Please click here to download the latest version for free.
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Everybody considers today’s graphic cards to be meant only for gamers. After all, why would one need a fast GPU in a server? Today’s graphic cards contain a lot of very fast RAM, typically between 64 and 512 MB. With Linux, it’s possible to use it as swap space, or even as RAM disk!
# lspci -vvv 0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c07 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-…
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This would be the perfect prank if someone could hide the “esc to exit full screen” feature.
Loved it. I remembered when I was working at an Internet caffee and we had win ‘98, XP was just out on the market and I got tones of BOSD’s a day. Crappy times …that led to Linux fun times. Thanks again for the…
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A flash simulation of a XP desktop that has books in the style of powerpoint presentations. You can read Animal Farm while it looks like a sales presentation.
Please click here to download the latest version for free.
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New Xkcd comic
Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/starwatching.png