My favorite music, running on decades now, has been instrumental music — electric guitar by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc., — or at least vocal music in non-English like hippy hare krishna music by Rasa, or new age music by Kevin Wood. I’d prefer to listen to the music without being distracted by the words. However, I have an eMusic subscription and decided to check out the alternative world, with real live English lyrics. Continue reading ‘How the Other Half Lives’ »
Archive for January, 2008
I spend a good deal of time now working on effective, efficient communication. It is a sin to waste someone’s time. If you have to produce documentation, investigate sparklines (“Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics”). Edward Tufte’s writing should be required reading for almost any profession I can think of.
Sun: 4137237 patchadd 106300-01 results in rm -rf / as root (That’s bad)
Microsoft: Computer Hangs While Booting with HP 6L Printer out of Paper (paper-powered pc’s ??? FEED ME!!!)
And I can’t find it now, but back around 12 years ago or so, uninstalling Norton Antivirus resulted in deleting all files not in use. That amuses me.
Visual Basic implementation of Double Metaphone. I posted it to Planet Source Code several years back, but I want a local copy…..
Here’s the free (it doesn’t cost money) Windows software I use. Continue reading ‘Recommended Free Windows Workstation Software’ »
Convert ListProc .subscribers file to format suitable for emailing in a LISTSERV //JOB .
Continue reading ‘convert ListProc subscription file to LISTSERV input’ »
Here’s a quick script to figger out [sub]totals of a list of IP ranges. Easy, but handy.
Continue reading ‘figgerips.pl’ »