A Comment on Commenting
After Kevin’s post on commenting, I realized that I tend to be really bad about following through with blog comment conversations. Kevin pointed out that he’s more likely to take the discussion to...
View ArticleDebian Vcs-* Fields: Abusing the Google Juice
This is a blatant abuse of any Google juice this blog has picked up. Every time I look for the definition of Vcs-Browser, Vcs-bzr, Vcs-cvs, Vcs-git, Vcs-hg, Vcs-hg, and Vcs-svn, it takes me forever to...
View ArticleHow to Teach Unix?
As part of my involvement with SIPB, one of the biggest problems we run into is getting people started. As much as we emphatically insist that you don’t need to know anything about computers coming in...
View ArticleBlueChips: Hassle-Free Apartment Finances
I live in a really awesome apartment. I’m living with really awesome people. And we tend to err on the side of awesome when it comes to buying stuff for the apartment. Specifically, we’re big fans of...
View ArticleMaking Xen Suck Less: Part 4
Magic SysRqs One of the most powerful ways to debug or recover Linux is through the Magic SysRq keys. Normally, if you’re using a serial console, you send BREAK, followed by the command you want....
View ArticleVirtastic: A Survey of Virtualization Naming
For today’s post, I thought I’d survey what software projects related to virtualization name themselves. It turns out that most projects have cute, but relatively unoriginal, names, formed by finding a...
View ArticleOperation Jobhunt: Completed
So, secretly, in spite of not saying anything about it on here, I’ve spent the last two months or so jobhunting. The whole process was definitely exciting and fun experience, but also really exhausting...
View ArticleSpicy Jambalaya
This is one of my favorite recipes ever, which I was reminded of when we spotted Andouille sausage at the grocery store today, after a few months of not being able to find it. I love this recipe most...
View ArticleMaking kinit Less Sticky
I upgraded my laptop to Snow Leopard yesterday, and one thing I’m still reeling from is the changes to Kerberos. I’m not usually one to fault developers for wanting to move forward at the cost of...
View Article“School’s Out Forever!”
Oh yeah. I’m over a week late at this point, but…I am now officially an MIT alumnus. (I’d get a better picture, but I sent my diploma home with my parents for safe keeping) Can’t say I really feel any...
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