Category: Technology

There are plenty of jokes about the routine life of system administrators. Many of these jokes come in pictures. There is an excellent collection of such pictures here. There are minor comments to pictures or on the pictures and some of them are in Russian, but don’t worry, you’ll get the meaning without comments too. Most of them go along the lines of “Admin’s breakfast”, “Admin’s girlfriend”, “Admin’s favourite server”, “Admin’s grandmother”, etc.

Mike Rubel has an excellent article that explains how to use rsync for making snapshot backups.

All the theory, examples, script listings, and references to other places are there. Great stuff!

The times of ASCII as a widely used text format are mostly gone by now. Web is all multimedia. Emails are pretty often HTMLed. Books are in MS Word format or some ebook crap. Documentation is PDFed. Some people do use ASCII (plain text), but they are getting less and less.

ASCII Generator is a lot of fun for those who still use ASCII. It converts a word or a phrase of your choice into a piece of plain text using one of many ASCII fonts. The results can be used on the web, or as a part of email signature.

NOTE: Don’t forget that you’ll need fixed/monospace font to replicate the results in most of the graphical programs. And even than you will most probably still have problems with tabs and spaces. Good luck.

Slashdot is a running an interesting story about the issue of losing digital media with private files, like photographs, and about someone else using it when found. It links to the blog (with the cool name “I Found Some Of Your Life”) of the guy, who found a CompactFlash (or something similar) with 227 images in the taxi. He started the blog with a daily post of one photograph from that collection and his own comments about it.

As many people, as many opinions they say. Some people are very concerned about privacy. Some are not so. You lose something, you lose something. Of course, it might be really uncomfortable to find your private parts all over the Internet (not the case here), but than try to not to do anything that you might regret afterwards. I think if I found someone else’s media with files, I would try to return it. But I wouldn’t go into great effort to do so. Just some trivia. If that fails, I might as well post all of the content to the web. This way the owner will have a better chance of finding it. :)