Category Archives: General

General updates.

streaming video in firefox

Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1.  That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead … Continue reading

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six little chances to learn before your next work week

These tabs have been hanging around in my browser for a week or so and it’s time to put them into a post.  Lots of good material here, even if absorbing it might take a few hours. 1.  First, Seth … Continue reading

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another great paul graham essay

Loved this essay from Paul Graham on the Lies We Tell Kids. This quote struck me as useful for the future: If parents told their kids the truth about sex and drugs, it would be: the reason you should avoid … Continue reading

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history meme

As taken from my personal machine. [blizzard@localhost ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [blizzard@localhost ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn … Continue reading

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giving in

I finally gave in and signed up for a twitter account.

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dear phil

It’s cold here. And no one loves me anymore. Where are you? Love, Your car.

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what he said. you know. about the goats.

Indeed, I had the same experience that Mike had with the colo that hosts my machine, since they were in the same room. Our mutual good friend also picked up our big 4U server and hauled it off into the … Continue reading

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an evening’s conversation

<sluftie> you have short teeth <blizzard> ???

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snapshots

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I guess it was inevitable

I guess someone had to do it. It was only a matter of time. A Novell ad for Linux that is a parody of the Mac vs. PC ad. And they chose the obvious: a hot girl to play the … Continue reading

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