I suppose once you begin blogging it’s only a matter of time till you start posting lists of your favourite things, usually Firefox extensions. Here are my top N. Tab Mix Plus Disable .xpi install delay Mouse Gestures FireFTP Customisegoogle Adblock »
Pensions; Not exciting to most people, but you ignore them at your peril. I started mine this week as my work offered to match my contributions up to 3%of my salary. I was holding off untill I was out of debt, but their contribution means its daft »
Someone in work called me bluff today, I did not know it was an adjective. Here is the definition, do you think it is apt? good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: eg: a big, bluff, generous man. »
I was in Borders the other day, killing time before the Yorkshire and Humber Python User Group’s first meeting, and I picked up Stephen Fry’s “The Ode Less Travelled”. If you don’t know it, it is a guide to poetry with exercises to encourage you to write »
No silent data corruption because of a checksum on each block, copy on write means no fsck EVER (it does not even have one), no RAID5 write hole, add disks to the pool on the fly, put volumes there as well as filesystems and export them via iSCSI or NFS »
I love the SunOS kernel. ZFS, Dtrace, Zones all make it desirable. But OpenSolaris is a code repository, not a distribution and you have to go elsewhere if you want a free distro. Nexenta looked the most promising, but then went quiet for a while (at »