I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
Those who deal with other people’s source code are regularly caught saying “WTF?”. Here is a site where people like these post daily the reasons that they get caught saying it. My favourite one so far is about the FOR-CASE paradigm.
After too much code these people usually realize that they are working with fools.
Something that has been annoying me for some time now, but enough for me to look for the solution – a stalled secure shell connection. In graphical mode getting read of a problem is easy – just close a window of the terminal and start a new one. In text mode though it’s a pain.
In order to close a stalled secure shell connection just type in tilde+dot (“~.“). If that doesn’t help, then try holding a Ctrl key while typing in the dot (“.“). Problem solved.
Beer has been inspiring a lot of people for a number of centuries by now. It’s inspirational powers are especially popular within the hacker community. An example of what a beer inspired person can do is here. It is a website that is devoted to generating complete lyrics for “99 bottles of beer” by using as many programming languages as possible (currently 621 variants).
99 Bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall. 98 Bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 97 bottles of beer on the wall. 97 Bottles of beer on the wall, 97 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 96 bottles of beer on the wall.
In case you’ll decide to study one of these programming languages, here is a site with a bunch of tutorials.
“The Operating System Resource Center” is a nice collection of links to loads of information about software and hardware subjects that usually come into mind when talking about computer operating systems. Boot process, hard disks, partitioning, file systems, processors, memory management, etc.
Update (July 17th, 2016): Since the original website disappeared, have a look at this page instead.
For those of us who still have to explain to some people what Internet is, Doc Searls and David Weinberger created an excellent website – “World of Ends“, or “What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.”. Now, instead of hours of explanations, we can just direct the poor souls to this website and expect them to start to get an idea. If they don’t – they are pretty much hopeless. Just kidding. :)
Simple language, no technical details, and broad overview make it an excellent starting point. Good job.
Those getting too interested, can be directed to “A Brief History of the Internet” page from Internet Society.