Archive For June 18th, 2003

Daragh in Monaco

Nah, I’m not jealous, no sirree! Not a bit of it that you were in Monaco and driving along the circuit F1 drivers take. Good thing I’m not a fan of F1 or I might get upset and cranky but I’m not so I won’t and I won’t mention this again. *grin* Must post pics [...]

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Forbes.com: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets

This story paints a scary picture of what SCO may be about. Sure, Linux users all over the world deride them and laugh, but how many of you cheered when they beat Microsoft over the DOS lawsuit? Now they’re coming after Unix and Linux with the exact same tactics. One might argue the open source [...]

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ssh tip of the day

If you ssh to hosts beyond a firewall or from within a NATted network then you’ll have noticed that SSH sessions timeout and get disconnected. I found that setting the TMOUT variable to 0 helped when not going through a firewall, and it must have been the firewall disconnecting an idle session otherwise. Add this [...]

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Linux desktop wars – who's winning?

While searching for more post-it notes applications for Linux (sticky_notes doesn’t let you resize smaller if a sentence is the width of the window.. boo!) I tried a search for linux desktop and noticed a certain desktop environment was conspicious by it’s absence. That may change by the time you read this so don’t hang [...]

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Clouds and the Moon Move to Block the Sun

Having just turned 5 “Astronomy Picture of the Day” presents another great photo for you to feast your eyes on. At first I thought the moon had flipped on it’s side but it’s a very unusual solar eclipse!

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