new fave hoster

Check it at http://www.freeshell.org/

Nice 'n' primitive. Or wild-n-wooly as they used to say. Reminds me of the early days of NetCom.com

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Cultured Perl: One-liners 102

I love perl one-liners. Found some new ones today at
http://www.geocities.com/therealtroll/scripts.htm (which is in process of being refactored to http://lodbrok.be/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiScripting
and eventually lead to More at IBM -- Cultured Perl: One-liners 102

Other great places to get Perl one-liners is
http://www.samag.com/tpj/oneliners/
or http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1334/samtpjoneliners/
... my two faves are on page 5 at http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1334/samtpjoneliners/one-liners05.html which eventually moved to http://drdobbs.com/web-development/184416234?pgno=5
... #45 (go see it for yourself) and #48 : perl -e 'print "$_\n" for @INC'

Perl Tutorials:
http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32perltut.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=perl+tutorial

Not to mention another old collection of mine at http://www.mhudson.net/index.php/MarkH/PerlOneLiners which eventually moved to http://www.hudsonicdev.com/m/index.php?title=Perl

SCALE doesn't measure up

Went to see the exhibits at the SoCalLinuxExpo (SCALE) on Saturday and was particularly underwhelmed.

First impressions are important, and I had a hard time finding the hall due to bad signage. Secondly, I expected more people & booths--the place had a strangely under-filled feeling. Perhaps Saturday afternoon was not a peak time.

Before I get bogged down in the negativity, let me say that my favorite part was getting some of the latest Linux/BSD distros on CD-ROM. Some were free and others asked for $1 donation to cover media cost.

Another cool one was the $100 PC from some educational group: http://www.solarlite.org/ although it won't be ready for release until later in 2005.

But the majority of the other vendor booths were most inexplicably-bland. Now I realize I shouldn't be expecting ComDex-style song-n-dance, but there were two basic categories (aside from the distro-CD-R-labelled-with-magic-marker-for-a-buck):

1. the hardware vendors with expensive-looking RAID arrays, or 1U rackmount servers

2. the open-source projects

And it was the OSS variety that mostly mystified as to the purpose of their presence. The good booths had decent signage/flyers, and staffed with multiple people, at least one of whom acted friendly and interested.

The inexplicable ones had either 0 or 1 person (often nearly comatose) and no/ultra-terse signs. Typical scenario:

me: "hi, I see your booth is about [reads sign]."

exhibitor: "yup, [repeats sign content]"

me: "I've heard about that before and it sounds neat."

exhibitor: "yup, it is."

[... crickets chirp, tumbleweeds blow ...]

me: "ok, thanks."

Then I wander away wondering what they could possibly hope to achieve?

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/

Connector System joins dual monitors., Molex Inc.

DMS-59

Connector System joins dual monitors., Molex Inc.

mini-itx.com - news

mini-itx.com - news
Hardware geeks posting pics of how they've mounted the mini-ITX motherboard into various cases--some factory-built, some home-made, and some re-purposed (i.e. ammo boxes, etc.)
Includes reviews of various small-form-factor-related items, such as AMD's PIC.

FireFox's little orange icon in lower-right

ok, I didn't notice that little icon before.

It helps make a "Live Bookmark" of the page. Wish FireFox would have made it a little more obvious. Hey, how about a menu item?!?

Anyway, Blogger.com automatically includes the appropriate code in their templates, enabling RSS auto-discover. Er, well, actually, in the case of Blogger.com, it is technically Atom, not RSS. But who cares...it is a "feed" using XML.

http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=ae7fa206-b6cc-45ad-a62a-89a64f488780

hey, HAY, hey.

still getting familiar with links to local stuff, like for instance archives

blogs are lame and only wiki engines should rule

see twiki.org


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