Looks like after killing their TouchPad tablet, HP open sources WebOS:
Might mean the TouchPad will make a comback. We'll see.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I can't quite put my finger on it, but this books keeps reminding me of things I've forgotten or ignored.
I must say I've enjoyed Book 3 the most.
Well, that's it. For now at least - I'm out of Murakami :-(.
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I've been using the methods and techniques described in GTD along side mind mapping in practice for over 8 years (mostly due to tools like OneNote, Emacs ORG mode, XMind/Fremind, etc). Reading this book has definitely helped optimize my workflow and planning into something quite a bit more efficient.
Right now I'm still looking to overhaul my tooling, OneNote isn't available on UNIX-like system (though it mostly works with wine), and Emacs ORG mode isn't practical for pasting images, screenshots, video, audio, files, etc. and such for reference.
It's tried a bunch of Java tools (Thinking Rock and GTD Free) but they're not very good for reference, note taking and reminders / calendar stuff. So far it's proving hard to beat the OneNote + Outlook + Project combo.
One tool I've been using for a while now (probably an year or so) along side OneNote is Tracks . It's a RoR webapp that covers most things in the GTD workflow. Although import/export isn't yet available as of version 2.0, it gets the job done. It's also available from Bitnami as a pre-installed stack.
If you're into GTD or just like to organize yourself with TODOS, tasks, projects and such, Tracks is worth a try.
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ls -la /usr | ./linum.plLet's convert this to perl using a2p.
1 : total 240
2 : drwxr-xr-x+ 12 root root 4096 2010-06-21 06:47 .
3 : drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-05-11 12:06 ..
4 : drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 69632 2011-05-24 14:07 bin
5 : drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 4096 2010-05-05 11:33 games
6 : drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 4096 2010-06-21 06:47 i586-suse-linux
7 : drwxr-xr-x+ 52 root root 4096 2011-05-13 04:17 include
8 : drwxr-xr-x+ 156 root root 69632 2011-05-24 14:07 lib
9 : drwxr-xr-x+ 10 root root 4096 2010-06-21 06:47 local
10 : drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 12288 2011-05-24 14:07 sbin
11 : drwxr-xr-x+ 213 root root 4096 2011-05-23 13:19 share
echo '{ printf("%5d : %s\n", NR, $0) }' | a2p > linum.pl
chmod +x linum.pl Let's try it out:ls -la /usr | ./linum.pl
1 : total 240
2 : drwxr-xr-x+ 12 root root 4096 2010-06-21 06:47 .
3 : drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-05-11 12:06 ..
4 : drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 69632 2011-05-24 14:07 bin
5 : drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 4096 2010-05-05 11:33 games
6 : drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 4096 2010-06-21 06:47 i586-suse-linux
7 : drwxr-xr-x+ 52 root root 4096 2011-05-13 04:17 include
8 : drwxr-xr-x+ 156 root root 69632 2011-05-24 14:07 lib
9 : drwxr-xr-x+ 10 root root 4096 2010-06-21 06:47 local
10 : drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 12288 2011-05-24 14:07 sbin
11 : drwxr-xr-x+ 213 root root 4096 2011-05-23 13:19 share
The code block looks pretty good:
while (<>) {
chomp; # strip record separator
printf "%5d : %s\n", $., $_;
}
NSA published some rather interesting OS security guides:
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml
The RHEL Security Guides are quite good.
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise tips:
Learn how to set up a 64-bit Linux® instance (starting with a Bronze-level offering) with the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM), capture a private image and deploy a new instance as a different offering (a Platinum tier) and then grow the LVM volumes and file systems to accommodate the new physical volumes. This article also shows how to configure and manage LVM across physical volumes using Linux LVM-type partitions:
Heh, this one is pretty awesome. Calculus and plotting in Microsoft Word :-). Best of all, it's a free add-on.
# Install HFS+ support
aptitude install hfsplus hfsprogs hfsutils
# Keep an eye on your dmesg:
tail -f /var/log/messages
# Get an idea on what partition you'd want to mount
cat /proc/partitions
# See what filesystems are supported
cat /proc/filesystems
# Check for a hfsplus LKM
modprobe -l | grep hfsplus
# Load it
modprobe hfsplus
# Check to see if it's loaded
grep hfsplus /proc/partitions
# Mount the HFS+ partition. If it's journaled, we don't need -o force.
mount -t hfsplus -o force -o rw /dev/sda2 /mnt/test
# Verify it
/dev/sda2 on /mnt/test type hfsplus (rw,force) touch /mnt/test/selftest ls -la /mnt/test/selftest
# If we're not allowed to mount with the write option, check dmesg
# If required, fsck, then remount.
/sbin/fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sda2
# As an alternative, you can disable the journal on a MacOS:
# GUI: hold option while clicking the menu in Disk Utility. CMD:
diskutil listsudo diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/YourdiskGnome "Terminator" is basically similar to ClusterSSH, dsh, kanif or such but runs all terminals in a single window you can split and such somewhat similar to screen.
It's also a bit more configurable (eg: gnome-terminal).
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnometerminator/?branch_id=70626&release_id=268543
Using fingerprint scanners for login is cool. Sure, it's insecure, but who cares about that :-). It's awesome!
Do enroll more than one finger, and have a fallback mechanism though...
# Install fingerprint software.
# You can play around with fprint_demo to try it out...
sudo aptitude install fprint-demo libpam-fprint libfprint
# Enroll the index finder. See pam_fprint_enroll --help for details
pam_fprint_enroll --enroll-finger 7
# Edit your PAM configuration to enable fingerprint login
# Fallback to password if it fails.
# emacs /etc/pam.d/commond-auth
# Add something like:
# Fingerprint
auth sufficient pam_fprint.so
You could also require both, but that's just awkward :-). And if finger print scanning breaks, it's a PITA.
