Transactional Debian Upgrades with ZFS on Nexenta
“Meet apt-clone(8). The tool which integrates with the Nexenta system, keeps track of upgrade checkpoints and allows to create/destroy/edit checkpoints by request.” — Where Solaris could be today, if Indiana had built upon existing FLOSS infrastructure.
(tags: sun solaris nexenta debian apt zfs upgrade rollback via:gman)
AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber
“You can […] […]
WPhone, WordPress Plugin
“Looking to manage your WordPress install via your phone? Then the award winning WPhone plugin is exactly what you need.” — Extraordinarly tasty (and tasteful!) WordPress admin interface plugin for mobile bloggers. Very sweet.
(tags: wordpress plugin mobile iphone phone interface)
‘Right to privacy’ for sex in public loos
“In a legal effort to help US senator [Larry Craig], the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is arguing that people who have sex in public toilets have an expectation of privacy.” — I am sure Senator Craig has always been a huge fan of the ACLU. Ha ha!
(tags: aclu larrycraig […]
Bollocks - Wikipedia
“‘Bollocks’ is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning ‘testicles’. The word is often used figuratively.” — I linked this (without checking if it existed) as a joke today. Turned out to be incredibly comprehensive, including bonus James Joyce references.
(tags: wikipedia bollocks etymology jamesjoyce humanfolly)
Western-Style Voting ‘A Loser’
“Incidentally, the Australian Electoral Commission also [does] contract […]
Changes
“After almost 9 years, today was my last day at Red Hat. I’ll miss it, and all the great people there.” — Holy jamoly. It will be very interesting to see where Havoc lands. Here’s hoping he stays within the orbit of GNOME.
(tags: havocpennington redhat hp)
Confessions of a shop assistant
“There, on the gleaming tiles in front of a row of plasma-screen TVs, was an enormous human turd.” — Entire article worth it for just this sentence.
(tags: shopgirl shop department store human turd)
Great Olan Mills photos
From “It’s a vagina, madam, not a clown car” to “It’s so cute when couples have matching hairdos”, […]
Airport anger: man sculls litre of vodka
“A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a litre of vodka at a German airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry on rules.” — All balls, no brains.
(tags: airport security alcohol vodka germany doofus)
drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader
Very […]
Cool plugins on blogs.gnome.org
“Here’s a quick tour of some of the rocking sweet plugins available on blogo!”
(tags: gnome blogs blogo plugins)
Deadline Hollywood Daily
“[Mrs Ari] doesn’t read ‘Variety’… she reads ‘In Style’.” — Ari Gold. If you want to know what’s going on with the WGA strike, dodge the brand name entertainment press and read Nikki Finke instead.
(tags: […]
Mens Donde Estan Mis Pantalones T-Shirt at PalmerCash.com
“¿Donde están mis pantalones?” — Jaq found my t-shirt. But not my pants. Estoy siguen buscando mis pantalones!
(tags: pantalones tshirt via:jaqx0r)
Update: It has been pointed out by helpful commenters that my Google-assisted Spanish is shockingly bad. Touché. ¿Soy caliente busca mi maestro español? Something like that.
Update: Xan notes […]
Antony Green’s Election Blog
“After resisting for a long time, I’ve finally committed to do a bit of blogging for the last week of the campaign.” — Antony Green, whose mere presence makes the Australian electoral season so great, starts blogging.
(tags: antonygreen blog election politics abc analysis)
Mac4Lin Screenshots
A retread of the OS X user interface built with GNOME […]
