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PSA: Don’t Send Severed Heads Via Southwest
Posted on June 18, 2010 - Filed Under Article, Linux, PSA | Leave a Comment
Luckily some heads that turned up in a Southwest cargo hold were for medical testing, but seriously, if you are going to be sending some vacuum sealed heads, make sure the airline you are using actually allows it:
Authorities in Arkansas are investigating a shipment of dozens of human heads that were found by employees of [...]
Linux Mint: The Beginner’s Choice
Posted on February 13, 2010 - Filed Under Linux | 3 Comments
My new laptop was installed with Vista, and I had had enough. My laptop wasn’t backwards compatible with XP, so I couldn’t install that. Vista was clunky. It consistently tried to “help” me. I had always wanted to try installing Linux, so this was my chance.
I threw up a real dirty partition, and installed Linux [...]
Linux Filesystem Tour
Posted on December 30, 2009 - Filed Under Article, Link, Linux | Leave a Comment
NERD ALERT!!!
This link will lead you to the best description of the linux filesystem that I have come across. Honestly, its not too heady, and if you are not entirely comfortable with computer science, this is a pretty great insight into where all the 0’s and 1’s are stored that allow you to look at [...]
Uh oh
Posted on December 21, 2009 - Filed Under Linux | Leave a Comment
Do you have this screensaver up:
That’s not a good thing. If you are a Mac or a Linux user, then you are screwed:
Packed inside an innocent-looking waterfall screensaver were a few lines of code that tucked themselves away in /usr/bin/ upon installation. While the script did little more than ping a remote server and later [...]
