http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/06/26/the-abcs-of-unix/ Recently I've been wanting to do away with having to boot into Windows to print delivery confirmation labels for seed orders. We use the USPS Shipping Assistant which seems to work pretty well, but won't install under Wine. This is because of the very stupid way they package the program: To ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/06/22/win4lin-rocks/ "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." — Theodore Roosevelt How true, how true. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/06/19/a-quote-from-theodore-roosevelt/ Is Linux For Losers? "It's terrible," De Raadt says. "Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'" And...the quote of ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/06/17/great-quotes-of-the-day/ If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. -- Albert Einstein http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/06/15/success/