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One I dont see mentioned is Xnest (or its successor Xephyr). In a previous life, used it all the time to debug apps in multiple desktop environments.

I do lots of small commits as save checkpoints and new branches for each point of exploration. Rebase/reset to create clean commits. Each final commit is a complete thought.

My favorite article on the life cycle (growth & collapse) of online communities is “Attacked from Within”* from the old kuro5hin site. I’ve always been curious to how it’s suggeste…

It's giving me a 502 bad gateway :(

The wayback machine* has Zachary Amsden's opinion in 2007 why the vmkernel (and other components) are not in violation of GPL. It's an interesting read. He concludes: > 1) There is…

The FAQ implies the lawsuit is relating to the Linux kernel: http://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq... > This case is specifically regarding a combined work t…

I also find it unlikely it's just the name and license number. They used to return all of a driver's information (name, phone, address, drivers license, license plate, etc) from th…

I think most new "netbooks" have been converted into 11.6 form factor to include a proper full sized keyboard. The only real reason netbooks had 10" displays was because intel requ…

My company uses lastpass to share passwords. Any passwords that is saved to the 'shared accounts' folder is automatically shared to everyone on the team.

It reminds me of http://www.fefe.de/ncp/ It's always interesting when people come up with the same thing independently.

Is it Half-Life or Half-Life: Source? I'd assume it's Half-Life: Source since they probably aren't going to port the old engine over.

They post them from time to time, but you're right, they primarily list VPS hosting. http://www.lowendbox.com/tag/dedicated-server/

Their funds are finite and the increased cost of a football would take away funds for other goods and services which they deliver. They need to prioritize their the current needs a…

Drop by whitetruffle ( https://www.whitetruffle.com/ ). We're located in Rocketspace coworking space. @froseph or joseph@whitetruffle.com

You should take a look at http://vcs-home.branchable.com/ They have a mailing list and a bunch of resources to do similar things. Right now I use movein[1] to maintain my dot files…

I do pretty much the same thing but using simplenote. Simplenote has a lot of clients including one for vim and emacs so it's pretty easy to find one on the platform of your choice…

This is precisely why they use reverse a linked list- it's common enough that everyone understands it, and if not, it can be quickly explained, and everyone understands that you 'j…

For what it's worth I don't really care much about your resume other than the fact that it is a signal for if you _may_ be a good hire. My job as an interviewer is to test if you a…

Flashblock, but that was primarily motivated my the amount of CPU it sucks up on my e350 based laptop.

I've been using screen for years, and just switched to tmux since so many people have been raving about it. The reasons I switched were: 1/ Configs for status prompt were easier to…

Equally unsettling is the potential of people tracking enabled by the government's increased use of surveillance cameras and large database of photo ids.

There are images of VMs floating of base installs of various linux distros. If this is too big, just configure JeOS with your basics and clone that image as needed. If the original…

Ubuntu Server edition has JeOS option ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_JeOS ) which is a minimal install optimized for virtualized environments.