Sometimes I’m reminded of a particular book or website and I feel that every programmer should know about it. This excerpt from Eric S. Raymond’s “The Art of Unix Programming” should be mandatory reading for all programmers. If you haven’t… Read More »Unix Philosphy
This is a good screen shot driven article for setting up Mono on SuSE 10. I really don’t care for SuSE, I use Ubuntu. But for the intrepid, this is a good way to start. This article was written for… Read More »Setting Up SuSE 10 for Mono
Spotted this site on Shoutwire.com the Digg.com copycat for non-techies. It’s called Spacewallpapers.net and it appears to be a mix bag of NASA astronomy pictures and Sci-Fi inspired digital art. All images are suitable for large desk top images. Note… Read More »Space Wall Papers
If you have not seen this comic strip – The Joy of Tech, check it out. I’m not a Mac fanboy, but they dog on everyone, so they’re cool. Michael Moore’s Christmas
Got this shot from BAD. It’s Saturn’s Moon Mimas, which as it turns out, is not actually round.
I had to switch cars today and take the kids to school. I missed out on listening to and checking in to the morning commute net on the local Ham repeater. I never realized how much I was hooked on… Read More »I missed my Ham Radio today!
One of our servers at work fell victim to several run-away processes, that’s putting it lightly, and we found that we had to monitor it constantly to see when another rogue process would bog it down. In order to do… Read More »Sentinel
I’ve been continuing my studies of Perl and have been adding to the script, ThinkingOfAnimals.pl. I’ve added some modules that extrapolate out some functionality. IO_LIB.pm contains methods for writing to and reading from a file, and LOGIT.pm which makes a… Read More »Thinking of an Animal, Part 2
Lately we’ve been experiencing technical difficulties with raising our kids. It seems that we have been unaware of the importance of being together as a family unit. Modern society has become a light-speed blur and the price we are paying… Read More »Detecting Undercurrents
Can a robot/android suffer Post Dramatic Stress Syndrome? That is the case with 347, the android belonging to the main character in Starforgers. Devon is forced to leave 347 on the remote moon where she was stationed as a Stellar… Read More »Shell Shocked Android