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Fitting eulogy

(stolen from http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/rip-dmr.html )

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("goodbye, dad\n");
    return 0;
}

Syndicated 2011-10-13 06:14:57 from jon's blog

RIP Dennis Ritchie

Thanks for everything, Dennis.

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FjX7r5icV8&t=38

Syndicated 2011-10-13 01:05:55 from jon's blog

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Cat, what are you doing there? You are not a FireWire adapter. http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B001KN8PSK/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all You don't even have a 1394 port. You are cute though.

Syndicated 2011-10-10 22:14:50 from jon's blog

all I could think was Brad Pitt looking at a box of leftovers yelling "what's in the box?"

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Syndicated 2011-10-08 19:03:19 from jon's blog

smbclient + time capsule

I *clearly* cannot be experiencing problems connecting to an Apple Time Capsule (latest firmware) from Ubuntu 11.04 using "smbclient". That bug (the one that noted that a built-from-scratch Samba works, whereas the packaged one doesn't) was marked "fixed" a while ago.

Syndicated 2011-10-07 12:18:23 from jon's blog

GreenArrays and SchmartBoard Make the GA144 Chip Accessible to Experimenters http://www.ecnmag.com/Blogs/2011/09/M-Simon/GreenArrays-and-SchmartBoard-Make-the-GA144-Chip-Accessible-to-Experimenters/?et_cid=2156453& et_rid=45551987

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Syndicated 2011-10-02 03:34:29 from jon's blog

wmic uninstall returnvalue 1603

If you're trying to use the Windows command line to uninstall something:

C:\>WMIC product where name="Program To Remove" call uninstall

Syndicated 2011-09-29 22:39:30 from jon's blog

The strange effect of Joss Whedon sci-fi shows: I'll watch their actor when I see them years later on their cop shows.

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Syndicated 2011-09-20 03:14:30 from jon's blog

Hey Colorado folks ... Anyone feel like grabbing dinner or a beer at Sobo or Sketch ? Or checking out the Mexican food at El Noa Noa?

Syndicated 2011-09-19 00:04:45 from jon's blog

Name a large data set which you could fit on a regular desktop's hard drive today ...

...but can't actually /download/ since your ISP has a download cap (Comcast's is 250GB)

I'll start!

1) The full Debian mirror (636GB)
2) A bzip2 compressed full dump of the English Wikipedia, including all historical revisions (280GB)

Syndicated 2011-09-16 03:36:07 from jon's blog