ibm’s super flat panel lcd’s will be shipping at the end of the year (price starting at “not less than $10k”. “A current prototype of the Roentgen monitor offers a resolution of 200ppi (pixels per inch), with a total of 5.2 million full-color pixels, laid out in a 2,560 by 2,048 grid.”
there’s something very satisfying about running top and seeing the swap reading 0k used.
from the haircut site, the short haircut style guide.
well, server is back up. 5 months without a reboot ain’t bad.
also a cool karma points idea
part of the wonders of /. are the interesting tangents that (d)evolve from seemingly innocuous posts.
seven part story on the cracking of a community network on rootprompt. it boggles the mind when thinking about people who are such assholes, just the sheer thoughtlessness and malice of it all suggests pathological childishness and antipathy.
so basically, the fbi gets to put a packet sniffer on systems when they want. riiight… about those tps reports.
/ puts it this way:
When Congress enacts this sort of program, they always give it a name like “The Freedom of Infants and Children Act” or the “Prevention of Violence to Puppies Act” with a rider that slips in the big-brother grants of power.
The FBI, on the other hand, gives it a name that can’t help but encourage visions of a government run-amok eating its citizens. Which, come to think of it, is not too far from the truth.
interesting, andover.net, the self proclaimed “leading linux destination” runs on solaris.
advogato’s trust metric page is just the kind of documentation i’m looking for. actually, by searching for trust metric instead of web of trust, i’m finding tons more relevant info.