April 2008
43 posts
Youtube downloader script →
“youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com.” This is cool; I’d always wondered how those Youtube download sites worked. Turns out you can just get the address from the page source!
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I disagree, but this is fun →
"A bottled system not a short story." →
EDIT: April 2009
Unfortunately the site that this link points to has gone down. Here’s the only still-extant bit of text from the article I could find:
“A loop would be a captured action or situation rather than a narrative, where the duration of the loop is set but the loop goes on forever so you can study the layers, the detail, the figure and the ground in the same way you can a...
Unfortunately-named German company →
The Man in Seat 61 →
Great resource for long-distance European rail travel.
Plane vs. Coach →
Eco-friendly travel. This guy’s calculations are questionable, but it’s something to think about.
UCD leads the way →
I wonder how much this really gets used.
Baker test, July 1946 →
Watch out for the shot with the palm tree in the foreground.
“Give them a new PC with Linux already on it, one where they can pick up more or...”
– Serdar Yegulalp, Information Week. Linux is now a usable desktop OS for perhaps most Windows migrants. But after a quick Google, I’m thinking there’s a need for more comprehensive Windows-to-Linux migration resources. It’d be nice to have some sort of centralized documentation...
Linux Advances Into Enterprise, Seeks Better Fix... →
Reporting on the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit this week. Brings up a weakness in the code-review part of the kernel development process. It’s interesting to consider how this might be solved.
Liquid fluoride reactor →
This’ll save us, maybe.
Markdown →
A Toot and a Snore →
Name that Color →
HACK JOB →
MinWin FTW
“A lot of people think of Windows as this really large, bloated operating system, and that may be a fair characterization, I have to admit,” said Eric Traut, who holds the title of distinguished engineer at Microsoft. “[So] we created what we call MinWin. It’s still bigger than I’d like it to be, but we’ve taken a shot at really stripping out all of the layers...
Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn →
"Only then do you see it: He is the one who is... →
Falafel recipe →
BSD Newsletter →
Could be useful
FreeBSD Basics →
Holy shit, nested X servers
Another Way of Knowing →
buddhabhasa →
Information Attrition →