How To Get Hired As An Open-Source Developer – Companies looking for open source skill sets are very focused on the proven abilities of the engineer in the work environment. In other words, if you can do it, you are the right candidate. With proprietary systems, like Microsoft technologies, there’s a tendency to look at things like certifications as a prerequisite for hires.
Monthly Archives: December 2002
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter …
Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ – linked from the Daypop top 40, but I haven’t seen it on my travels. Basically, “You fight us, we fight you”.
Weapons Inspectors' Experience …
Weapons Inspectors’ Experience Questioned, ah sure, I might as well apply. Ye never know, they might send me out there. I could do with a bit of travel…
38 Things You Want To Say At W …
38 Things You Want To Say At Work But Can’t – 1. I can see your point, but still think your full of crap. …
Woman jump starts car with cyb …
Woman jump starts car with cyber-infant – baby eats security chip, mother presses baby against steering wheel and turns key to start. As for the transponder, it was later recovered in a presumably hugely distasteful rescue operation. Both mother and son are reported well.
Disabled textareas lose their …
Disabled textareas lose their scroll bar in IE – That’s annoying, but it’s up to the user agent to draw the textarea (obviously!), but IE doesn’t do the right thing. *grrr*
I never had much use for trans …
I never had much use for transparent terminals. They annoyed me, but with my own photos on the desktop it’s kinda nice to see familiar scenes in the background of my terminal as I work.
Here’s the settings I use with MGT:
I like having a light coloured background (black on light yellow) so here we go..
Settings->Tab Preferences->Image
- Check the “Transparent” box.
- Set “Shaded Background” to 41%
- Set “Adjust Contrast” to -69%
- Set “Gamma Correction” to -14%
- Tint the background with whatever colour you like.
The aim would be to get a lightly transparent image, that’s discernable but not distracting. These work for me, but YMMV!
Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day – i …
Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day – it was December 2nd here in Ireland. Did anything change? I don’t think so. I bought veg and sauce for dinner last night in the local SuperValu and it was busy, busy, busy!
If consumers want any change, not spending isn’t how to do it. Spend differently. Buy produce that most people don’t buy. Go to your local corner shop instead of the huge supermarket. Hey! Prices will be more expensive, but that’s ok, you’re making a difference. *huh!*
Seen on IRC: The difference be …
Seen on IRC: The difference between Bill Gates and Batman is that Batman beat the penguin.
If you can't get at your IDE C …
If you can’t get at your IDE CD burner because Nautilus keeps loading the ide-cd module try the following trick:
Login as root and enter the following, you might have to repeat the command a few times as Nautilus probes the CDROM on a regular basis.
# /sbin/rmmod ide-cd cdrom ; /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
Of course, I should just modify my /etc/modules.conf but I CBA!