Check out this listing of linux screen shots!
This is a huge list of linux distro’s if you are bored this Winter try them all out, I dare you!
M
BUGGA dot NET – Your home for information on Beer, Cars and IT
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A big collection of WinXP drivers – Slipstream using this!
Wow… This site gives you a way to get virtually ALL drivers for EVERYTHING internal. I have already built a DVD install disk and installed it on some of the newer machines, and it does great. Saves me a TON of time. I just hope the site doesn’t go under for bandwidth. 🙂
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Elderton Barossa Shiraz – 2000
The scents coming from the top of this wine are amazing. There be spice, fruit (plum i think) and dark dark dark chocolate. I have had the cork out and it airing for the past 45 minutes, and currently the best of this wine is yet to come, and its coming, although some of what I am percieveing as tightness might actually be the beginnings of corking, edit…alas beyond this first mouthful it seems that this wine was indeed corked and undrinkable, which is sad, as it appears to have a lot of potential based on the initial taste.
Either way I am going to shove this onto my must buy some future years list and see how they progress over the years.M
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Yalumba – Barossa Shiraz 2000
Booyah, this wine embodies body, a little sharp as it hits the pallete (which indicates to me that it needed a little longer decanting) and then you are in the body of this wine, which is very deep and chunky. Its smoothness lasts for quite some time before just at the end of the aftertaste you have a little of the sharp tannins remaining.
If you have this wine drink it now, mine was not cellared correctly and was just at the beginning of its downward decline into old age, and not the good kind.
M
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Mallee Estate – 2001 Shiraz
This was a very light bodied shiraz that had plenty of potential as it hits the tounge and olfactory senses, but at that point just as you begin to think, ooo this aint to bad, poof, it dissapears and all hope is lost, this is not saying that it is unpleasant or horrible, just dissapointing.
M
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Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns
[… Even if you don’t use OpenBSD, you’re likely to be benefiting from it unknowingly. No matter what OS you use, chances are you’re using the OpenBSD-developed OpenSSH for secure shell access to remote machines. This article asks the question: If so many are using this software, why are so few paying for it? …]
I cannot let this article be linked without commenting. I understand completely that OpenSSH is in need of money and that it would be nice if companies would step up to the plate and support it financially, but there are some things that can not be left ignored.
Apple do not just take take take take – they gave back to KHTML in both the renderer and java script code, they gave some of the top contibutors (to OS X/Darwin open source things) hardware now while Apple benefit from these things this is certainly an example of giving back. Hell even the core of their OS is Open sourced. I have seen Apple activly participating and supporting a LINUX conference ( http://linux.conf.au ) this does not equate to the take take take attitude implied in the article.
I am conflicted on this issue – should a company pay to include software that is indeed open source in their distributions, I tend to side that the software is open source and that as long as you comply with any licence restrictions you can do as you please with it and your responsibility is ended. I do however feel that if this software is useful you should strongly consider donating to the organisation that supports this development work, but certainly not as an obligation. I do also see the reason that they are after this money are for conferences where OpenBSD developers can get together face to face to further this project – has OpenBSD sought funding from companies using open source software, what has their response been?
I do also on some level feel that perhaps Theo de Raadt has in some ways contributed to this in the way he comes across in his posts and emails.
For as much as I have a bad impression of Theo, I will probably end up purchasing a CD set, if only because the current plight of the OpenBSD foundation has made me think of how much I rely on OpenSSH personally, I would encourage others and especially businesses condsider at least likewise.
M
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Graphical vi/vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial
Graphical vi/vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial
If you are like me you are quite capable within vi, well using the basics any way, moving lines around, navigating within the file, but every now and then you want to do something a little more complicated or very repedative, I tend to need to refer to a cheat sheet regularly to do these things until I remember them, this link will take you to just such a useful cheat sheet!
M
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He created the first router but Cisco got credit – [what now?].
While William (Bill) Yeager is 66 and still gets peeved when someone trots out the Silicon Valley fable about how the founders of Cisco invented the router (He was the guy at Stanford University that made it happen). I am most interested on the things that he is currently working on at the moment.
Sun for me are the flavour du jour and they have some really intruiging projects that they are working on presently, especially what Bill Yaeger is getting up to there, the fourth and fifth pages of this article are the most intruiging for the possibilities that they introduce!
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It was ETSA’s fault – honest
It seems that service to bugga.net was unavailable due to a power outage. This may yet happen again today, if it does my apologies.
M
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How OS X Executes Applications
I must get off my backside and have a look at programming in OS X, this article should help bridge some gaps in my knowledge from Linux/Solaris aiding learning the way Darwin(OS X) does it.
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….Highly detailed article on the way OSX executes apps. “In OS X, all files containing executable code, e.g., applications, frameworks, libraries, kernel extensions etc., are implemented as Mach-O files. Mach-O is a file format and an ABI (Application Binary Interface) that describes how an executable is to be loaded and run by the kernel.”