Monthly Archives: November 2006

Global Orgasm Day

26 November, 2006 – 6:44 am

As absurd as it may sound, 22 December 2006 is Global Orgasm Day. Yes! You heard it right: Gobal Orgasm Day. You can read all about it on the official global orgasm day website. A snippet from the website (the following indented content is copyright globalorgasm.com):
WHO?
All Men and Women, you and everyone you know.
WHERE?
Everywhere [...]

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script(1): Logging terminal sessions to files.

19 November, 2006 – 11:09 am

There are times when you want the output from a particular command that you’ve run on a Linux terminal in a file. There are even times when you want an accurate log of the entire interactive session you are going to run. While the solution to the former is as simple as piping the output [...]

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Quick-HOWTO: Setting Samba Shares on Slackware Linux.

16 November, 2006 – 8:38 am

I am a little short on time. This is a small write-up, briefly going through the instructions on setting up Samba shares on Slackware.
Samba stores its config and data files in /etc/samba/. Samba uses a single config file named “smb.conf”. If you have not played with Samba on your Slackware machine, chances are there won’t [...]

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Why did I decide to go for Ruby?

16 November, 2006 – 7:11 am

I mostly write code in Perl, with C and C++ coming along once in a while. Perl is a dangerously powerful language. You can do most everything in it in a few lines of code. While that is Perl’s best feature, the code written in Perl can get hard to read really easily. The syntax [...]

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Dell Desktop PC!

13 November, 2006 – 2:47 pm

After collecting suggestions from people on desktop PCs, I finally got myself a refurbished branded Dell desktop PC. It is a cute, black, flat desktop, neatly assembled, with the following specifications:

2.26 GHz Intel Processor
512 MB Physical Memory
40 GB IDE Hard-disk
CD-WR+DVD-RD

I did not bargain over the price because it seemed like a reasonable acquisition.

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External USB keyboard for Laptop.

6 November, 2006 – 9:01 pm

I finally bought an external USB keyboard to use with my laptop. It is jet black, small, and sexy. And it just works on Linux. The ps/2-to-usb adapter I bought doesn’t work at all. I am glad this USB keyboard worked. Otherwise, I would have been struggling with a few more loose keys on the [...]

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