Trivia fact that I told someone about at NYCBSDCon: the habit of using (via) to correctly attribute links comes from a still-online-but-not-functioning site called The Nonist. The fellow putting it together had the most wonderful ability to find esoteric, interesting items to read about. I can’t match his talent for images. The Wayback Machine has a copy of the Nonist site so you can see it in its original glory.
To the (text-only) links!
- English minus the non-Germanic words. (via)
- ‘Tainted Love’, played via floppy drive.
- Unix: When to look for a new job.
- The Dreamliner’s latest in-flight emergency. I’m not that interested in the article, but I like the quote from the place where I found it linked: “The Internet of Rebooting Things”.
- Android is becoming unforkable. (via) The article doesn’t mention Cyanogen or Replicant when it’s talking about ‘alternative’ strategies for Android development; I’m curious what to make of them.
- Broken by design: systemd. (via)
- A followup: Why systemd is winning. (via) ‘winning because nobody else showed up to the game’. Not a direct quote, but a summary.
- Bunnie Huang’s Name That Ware February 2014 is a mystery to me, but it’s oddly pretty.
- 3D versions of D&D Monster Manual creatures from Patrick Farley. (via)
- A Vim tutorial and primer. (via)
- ICMP types in IPv6.
- An objective points-based system for keyboards. “KLACKY keyboards feel great but they will get you knifed in the back by the people who work near you.”
- Hello boss… Something happened…
- All IBM training videos should be this awesome.
Your unrelated link of the week: If I met you at NYCBSDCon last week, did I seem like a mature adult? I’m not. Here’s Deer Fart.wmv.
I wonder why the *BSDs consistently manage to come up with simple solutions that just work every time, while across the fence in the Linux camp there always has to be something “revolutuionary” that adds unecessary complexity, breaks compatibility with other platforms and generally makes the user’s job managing the system a PITA.