Is the singularity here yet?
View the page source. It amused me.
Social IT Software
I’m surprised the footprint is so large and I haven’t heard of them. Interesting stuff though.
VMware Server 2.0.2 and Firefox
VMware Server Console plugin for Firefox does not work with firefox 3.6.x I hope that saves an hour of your day as well.
Turbo Tax is a Dick
Turbo tax tries to screw you out of the $19.95 e-file fee for state taxes. Just mail your state taxes in, only e-file federal. The only downside is TurboTax makes it difficult to do it. This is how you make it work:
- E-file federal don’t file State
- Once complete click on Print & File again
- On the first page it will ask if you want to e-file federal, choose file by mail
- The next screen says it can’t because you’ve submitted already
- Continue on to print out state paperwork
Dicks.
Sysadmin is changing. Glad it’s still open source.
Oregon State University Open Source Lab using Puppet
Lance Albertson, architect and systems administrator at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab uses a sys admin staff of 18-21 year old undergrads to manage servers for some high profile open source projects (Linux Master Kernel, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and Drupal to name a few). In this Q&A, Albertson talks about the challenges of using young sys admins and the lab’s plans to move from Cfengine to Puppet for systems management.
Applications I Use on OSX
I’ve been keeping this reasonably up to date. Again due to the migration that’s coming up I wanted to make sure it’s complete. Any apps I should be using?
Firefox Addons
So I’m getting ready to format and reinstall from scratch on my macbook. I’m doing a little do diligence for keeping track of some of the crap I always forget to save. Here is a list of my current firefox extensions.
- PermaTabs :: Add-ons for Firefox
- InvisibleHand :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Greasemonkey :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Firebug :: Add-ons for Firefox
- FaviconizeTab :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Evernote Web Clipper :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Delicious Bookmarks :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Better GReader :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Better Gmail 2 :: Add-ons for Firefox
Is there anything I should be using that is obviously missing (@savagegus)?
Tagging Books
Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags […] to the books they read. […] To do this, the library didn’t create a complicated computer system or send people online. Instead, they installed more book drops and return shelves, labeled with different descriptors like “boring,” “great for kids,” “funny,” etc.
Awesome and brilliant.
Responsible Open Source Code Parenting
As usual Jeff Atwood is dead on. Gruber is very much an apple kind of guy and the way he’s been running markdown is a shame. The catch here is that the article is about how Markdown is an example of…
