A public service announcement: Check your backup power systems when the weather is bad. It has been so cold that the always-running heater blocks cooked away the coolant in my workplace’s backup generator in between the weekly inspections, and when the power died a few days ago, the generator failed to start. This led to the paradoxical sensor warning: “High coolant temperature” when the outside temperature was below freezing.
- Scott Hanselman wrote “Microsoft killed my Pappy“, where he attributes dislike to Microsoft to being old anger from antitrust suits, etc. Those were more the outcome of frustration over Microsoft quality, as I recall. Microsoft is doing some things right nowadays – generally using open source techniques and sorta working with standards – but then again, so are all the other large tech silos.
- Those who do not know jails are doomed to reinvent them. That’s my description of these container/docker/etc ideas floating around Linux. Yes, I know I’m oversimplifying. (via)
- speaking.io, about public speaking. Posted mostly for my own future edification. (via)
- UNIX: Making better use of the find command.
- More history on stpcpy(3) than you ever knew.
- Unix: How to get along with your coworkers.
- James Iry’s History of Programming Languages. Some the jokes aren’t exactly new, but it made me laugh. (via #dragonflybsd)
- The End of Facebook. I know I should have the Digest on Facebook, but I’m not sure how much of an audience I’d be able to reach without paying to play. (via)
- I Still Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem. I find the lack of adherence to standards – or even agreement on common formats – very frustrating. (via)
- Twitch Plays Pokemon, the explanation.
- A brief history of one-line fixes. Written in honor of Apple’s recent blunder. The conclusion is good, too.
Your unrelated link of the week: Muppets, NYC, and tea. I know it’s an ad, but it fits my interests perfectly.
Don’t bother feeding the Digest to FB. I have 155 fans. My blog posts show for only 5-7 people.
I’m told that I’d get better exposure if I didn’t use links back to my blog, and copied posts there wholesale. But that’s work.
If I’m going to do that, I might as well just copy the message “Facebook refuses to display my content to my fans. Go to Twitter or directly my site.”
Meaning they’ll show your own content to people you know – if you don’t do anything that indicates there’s an Internet outside of Facebook? Talk about walled gardens…
In regards to: Those who do not know jails are doomed to reinvent them
Why would docker not make things right the first time? I can’t even to lie to you and say I’m a jails admin and I know everything there is to know, but if these problem exist in linux with docker, what’s making it so damn popular? many start ups are created because of this docker technology and it seems it’s not even that good of a solution. Once you get docker installed, you’ll have to get a specific docker image thing or else you may have issues later on and not have an idea why.