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Since it’s been around my corners of the Internets, I guess it’s time for me to post this meme as well:
Popular El problema del trole, matar y la moralidad
Quisiéramos creer que nuestra moral viene de nuestra sana capacidad para emitir juicios racionales… pero eso es solo un deseo. Un fascinante experimento revela lo contrario:
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Monitoring Dirvish backup servers using Nagios
Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will know, at all times, the status of your latest backup run:
The latest PulseAudio on Ubuntu
If you want to install the latest and greatest PulseAudio (now on version 0.9.8) on Ubuntu — a worthwhile thing to do, because of the fixes in the latest version — here are some packages you can use.
Upgrade from Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy: the one-liner version
Here’s the one-liner version of the Feisty (7.04) to Gutsy (7.10) upgrade (in case the distribution upgrade tool fails — it failed in my computer=. Copy and paste this on an open console window, and you’re very probably set:
Six things to demand from your Internet Service Provider
In the world of Internet service advertising, we’re perpetually bombarded with ads that, above all, extol the “virtues of a faster Internet experience”. Don’t fall into the trap — here are six aspects you should evaluate beyond the “numbers” in your current or future Internet contract:
Solving choppy sound and audio stutter in VMware
VMware (Workstation or Player) under Linux tends to stutter and produce choppy audio when running a Windows XP virtual machine. Here’s what I did to kill those problems (yes, I can even use Steinberg Nuendo now!):
25 guidelines to iPhone Web development
The iPhone Web guidelines. All the rage now. Long, boring read. To save you the trouble of actually reading it, I’ve checklisted the wheat and trimmed the chaff for you:
Do not open new browser windows, ever
When I was in college, I had a stubborn teacher who absolutely demanded that certain parts of our project (Web site / application) open in new windows. I tried to explain to him why this was a big no-no. He didn’t understand.
Stupid is as stupid writes
You know, it’s always freaked me out when people say the (invented?) word utilize. I know they have mush for brains when they can’t muster the use word. Now, I thought I was alone on this, but as it turns out, I’m not:
