Monthly Archives: June 2008

Clowns

June 24, 2008 – 11:29 am

This is one of the most terrifying images I’ve ever seen. This might provide some protection.

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No You Are

June 22, 2008 – 6:22 am

Gordon Brown is planning to tell the Saudis that they need to spend some of their oil profits helping us not to need their oil so much. As stupid as that sounds, there’s a key line that makes it even worse: The prime minister wants oil producers to invest some of their profits in long-term [...]

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Solaris, NWAM and Static IPs

June 19, 2008 – 1:55 pm

A new feature in OpenSolaris is NWAM, the NetWork Auto Magic, um, thingy. It’s a handy tool that automatically configures your network connection. Unfortunately it unhandily has no GUI at the moment, though one is in the works, so if it doesn’t work right first time you can quickly get lost in text files and [...]

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VP Pick

June 18, 2008 – 7:28 am

Some group I’ve never heard of is asking that the next Vice President be a ‘True Christian’, given that neither Presidential candidate counts, apparently. It brings up the old whine about marriage again, unsurprisingly: The group isn’t suggesting names but is citing criteria for a perfect candidate, including that it be someone who is against [...]

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OpenSolaris on Mac Mini

June 13, 2008 – 11:04 am

First of all, don’t. Just don’t. But if you must, here’s the driver to get the ethernet port to work on a Mac Mini under OpenSolaris. You’re welcome.

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