Logiciel Libre

As seen on Planet Fedora…

:) [adamm@snax ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a)\
{print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
79 svn
68 vim
57 cd
35 ls
32 pwd
25 ant
20 s
19 mysql
19 find
12 mv

“s” is aliased to “cd ..”.

That is all.

Bryan recently pointed out that a popular tourist “festival activity” in Beijing is “sunstroke prevention”.

IRC is an ancient, tried-and-true one-to-many chat protocol. Pidgin is a feature-rich instant messaging client that can handle many protocols, including IRC. Pidgin runs on many different platforms, including the three most popular ones. Pidgin integrates nicely with the desktop.

Here’s how to set up a Freenode IRC account in Pidgin:

1. Open Pidgin; click Accounts -> Add/Edit.
2. Click the Add button.
3. Change the protocol to IRC and enter
   irc.freenode.net as the server.
4. If you have a Screen name (called a “nick” or “nickname” in IRC
   parlance), type it (e.g. MrOpenSource) in the Screen
name field. If you don’t own one yet, make one up.
5. Click on the Advanced tab, and fill in the Real
name field.

Now, register your nickname. This helps people recognize you, protects your
identity, and allows you to send private messages.

1. Click on Buddies -> New Instant Message.
2. Fill in NickServ for Name.
3. Change Account to the Freenode account you just created,
   and click Ok. Now you can “talk” with the
   NickServ robot.
4. The first message you send should be register PASSWORD
   (where PASSWORD is one of your choosing).
5. Next, set an email address. This will give you a way to reset your
   password later should there be a need. Send set hide email on
   to NickServ.
6. Next message should be set email ADDRESS (where
   ADDRESS is your email address)

Then, join #mifos. :)

One problem sometimes occurs when you have connection problems. You may be disconnected from the internet and the IRC server may not realize you’ve dropped off. When you reconnect, you may see what appears to be two of your username in the channel with slightly different names. Like: USERNAME and USERNAME_. Send help release to NickServ, and NickServ will tell you how to release the original, correct nickname.

Further instructions can be found here or by saying help to NickServ. Commands like /msg NickServ help do work in Pidgin.

This guide was heavily inspired by the following article on freesoftwaremagazine.com.

One more final tip: enable the “Join/Part Hiding” plugin to supress the many “so-and-so joined the room, so-and-so left” messages that will likely show up in the channel.

After being utterly and completely brow-beaten by Jesse Thorn plugging Kasper and Hauser, I decided to check them out. And I was rewarded for doing so.

Kasper and Hauser are a comedy team. They’re hit or miss, but when they hit, they really hit. They have a podcast, and a book. Haven’t seen the book, but here are a few hits from the podcast worth checking out:

• Holiday Gift Guide
• Phone Call to the 14th Century
• Mundo de Perros!

http://jwz.livejournal.com/830604.html

rotfl.

I agree that it is basically vandalism in that the reason everyone is there is to see the what’s on the TVs, but it’s still funny as heck.

Like a couple of the commenters, I’ve found the TV-B-Gone indispensable in airports, bars, restaurants; any place where the management seems to think people need a TV playing in the background (or foreground) at all times.
Here’s the thing they probably used to turn off the TVs.

(via Patrick)

Eva’s gift to me this year was a speedbag stand and installation. This new toy beats any video game. No contest.

Thank you, Eva!

It was nice to have someone I trusted doing the assembly and mounting.

Here’s a video from White Pass, WA. This is Andy Mahre, wearing a helmet cam.

This should make you want to get out in the snow.

Subtle Butt: anti-fart pads (via Strange New Products)

Is it Christmas? (via Patrick)

As the holidays are fast approaching, many musicians will be called forth to back a multitude of sing-alongs. Be prepared! Musicians that care memorize or use sheet music, and nerdy musicians love Chordie!

Chordie turns text files with embedded chord names into beautiful, stafless PostScript lead sheets.

Chordie is a fork of Chord, and is written in under 5,000 lines of K&R C. Chordie currenly only runs on *NIX-like operating systems, but there may be ports to other operating systems someday.