Somehow, I ended up with the most concise link listing I’ve ever done, even though I have a pretty good batch here. Go figure.
- Who doesn’t like the taste of BSD? Mmm, delicious.
- “redundant array of inexpensive crap”
- The invention of email. (via, via) It predates Unix.
- The worst ‘hacking’ scenes ever. (via) Starts funny, then you get angry.
- A nice explanation of the Lorenz Attractor, which I had only ever experienced as a screen saver. (via)
- Possibly the smallest roguelike ever.
Can anybody tell my why ‘It’s a Unix System from Jurassic Park’ is in the list of worst ‘hacking’ scenes ever? IIRC they just showed a plain IRIX system with the FSN filebrowser.
1: Most people think it’s made up.
2: Those that know it’s real think she wouldn’t have used fsn if she really knew Unix, and she would have been quicker typing in a CLI.
3: it was just funny how she blurted the phrase out, so it gets used a lot whenever people talk about computers and movies.