The Dude abides.

Upgraded Fedora Core 6 boxen to Fedora 8

I updated cassini.gathani.org to Fedora Core 8 from Fedora Core 6. It took the better half of the afternoon, thanks to yours truly having used some non-Fedora repositories.
Seems to be working now, with over 400 packages needing an update post installation. I notice a suspicious lag in rendering of GTK windows which clearly needs more [...]

Dave Barry on choosing a major

Dave Barry’s hilarious advice on choosing a major
Here is a very important piece of advice: Be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers.
This means you must *not* major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, because these subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you major in mathematics, [...]

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality

From David Pogue’s blog (on New York Times and if you can spot the irony in me posting this here, good for you!):

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
I’ve been doing a good deal of speaking recently. And in one of my talks, I tell an anecdote about a lesson I learned from my own readers.
It [...]

Turning a sphere inside out

Three questions:

Can you turn a circle inside out?
Can you turn a sphere inside out?
If you were a betting man (or woman, as it may be), and you were told either (1) or (2) were true, would you bet that the other question answers true as well?

Here is a mind blowing Google Video on topology that [...]

FreeBSD ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools ports

Submitted ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools ports. Within hours, pecl-mdbtools was committed, thanks to Miwi! I’ve never seen such fast turn around time
For some reason, nobody’s touching my CouchDB port . My AstmanProxy port had some troubles building on AMD64 but I sent in a patch for that. I must say that the FreeBSD automated [...]