Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction

The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate.

Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems

Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future.

Mark talks about Bob, or Sun and Sony and everything Cringely discussed in his latest article. Good reading.

Russell Beattie – Thoughts on Open Sourcing Your Code: The OSS Prototype License. Or why can’t I release code and not support it when I get bored of it.
I have to admit I’m guilty of this. My install-sendmail script configures Sendmail and Fetchmail but about once a month I get an email asking for help. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t responded to any mail about that project in several months. Even the glowing mails that thanked me went unanswered. Rest assured, install-sendmail still works fine with the newest releases of Sendmail, although I really should look into the hosts.deny and hosts.allow integration. I guess most of the people who use my script don’t have anything in /etc/hosts.deny..

Note to self: I must not eat any more of those delicious chocolates Martina got me. *sigh*

Subject: Important, read this.

> Dear Receiver,
>
> You have just received an Irish virus.
>
> Since we are not so technologically advanced in Ireland, this is
> a MANUAL virus.
>
> Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this
> mail to everyone you know.
>
> That’d be grand, thanx
>
> Paddy O’Hacker
>

Via IRC: BBC4: NATO split over Iraq. – Congressman Pete King tells us why he believes the French can only advise on ‘surrender’. (Realaudio stream)
Just heard that Gulf War 2 will start on March 1st? Pure speculation? Yeah, thought so.

The User Friendly Programmer – or 5 reasons why programmers should have tech support experience. Oooer. Interact with users? *shudder*

SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine – another SQL server for PostgreSQL users to bash! *grin* (I’m joking right, don’t mail me! hehe)

Hepatitis-like virus protects against HIV