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Python, apparently. Which Programming Language are You?

Good observation.

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Different.

Blog about virtualization. Lots of good VMware bits as well as other virtualization products and technologies. Very cool Virtualization Industry Roadmap 2007.

Tips how to make Ubuntu faster.

Supports SFTP, SCP and FTP. Nice freebie.

Easy way to decide what runs at boot: sudo apt-get install rcconf sudo rcconf Simple but effective text mode UI to enable/disable startup services. Since Ubuntu runs at level 2, this really means renaming files in /etc/rc2.d, changing S##name to K##name or vice versa. I’ve looked, yet to find something else to do this. Update: [...]

I decided I didn’t need to reformat a Tivo hard drive again (another tale), so I reassembled my old Dell PC CPU: Pentium II 400MHz RAM: 384MB Disk: 14GB / 30GB / 30GB (an IBM and 2 Maxtors) CD: DVD-ROM (IDE) and CD-RW (SCSI) Video: nVidia GeForce FX 5700LE Network: 3Com 3C905B (100Mb) Audot: SBLive [...]

The basics: Login as rootsu Install smbfs (if necessary)apt-get install smbfs Create the local mount pointmkdir /mnt/bleh Define the mount (add to /etc/fstab, where @ is a tab)//server/share@/mnt/bleh@smbfs@rw,users,auto,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials@0@0 Create the credentials:echo username=thesmbuserid >/root/.smbcredentials echo username=thesmbpassword >>/root/.smbcredentials chmod 600 /root/.smbcredentials That creates a mount for the share that any user can mount or umount (users), that’s [...]

A hack, but can be done. Nicer in 2.6.

Elbonia has its own Wikipedia page.

I haven’t read this one. Yet.

Sounds interesting. Will have to look it up.

Details on how Eclipse boots and runs. Good stuff if you use Eclipse.

Detailed airline and airplane information, such as which planes have EmPower and where. Neat.

Windows GUI testing, driven by Python.