How about that…
$ uptime
18:19:53 up 208 days, 2:51, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.16, 0.10
Not bad for my old crappy desktop machine running on the floor in my apartment without any kind of backup power supply or anything. I run it with the case off all the time, and wires […]

It’s been a few years since I officially grasped Linux’s (well, X Windows’) weird concept of copying and pasting, with its multiple discrete copy/paste methods: the highlight + middle click version, and “clipboard” Edit->Copy” + “Edit->Paste version.
But once in a blue moon, copying and pasting in X still surprises me. Try this:

Open Firefox and […]

The OS on my first computer was Windows 3.1, and I lived with Windows 95/98/ME for a long time. When you live their formative years in this kind of environment, you develop an obsessive need to save your work all the time, because at any moment, the program you were using could crash. […]

Vista has this really cool feature. When I log in to work via VPN and then close my laptop’s lid to put it to sleep, when I open the lid later, I get the CTRL+ALT+DEL login screen as normal, except that my mouse cursor is now invisible! If I can somehow manage to […]

I had to undelete someone’s files from a FAT partition today. My first thought was to use good ol’ Windows to do so, given that Windows is the unholy ground which spawned FAT to begin with. I remember there used to be an UNDELETE command of some sort in some old version of […]

Computers are a love/hate thing for me. I love all things digital, but I desperately need to get away from it sometimes too. So I had a nice vacation away from my computer last week. I couldn’t keep myself from reading some mailing lists and hitting Slashdot once a day, but I […]