The creator of ReiserFS, the famous and robust Linux journaled file system was convicted of murdering his wife after 2 years of court wrangling. I don’t know enough about the case to know if he was truly guilty or innocent, but it seems for at least the next 25 years (minimum for his murder conviction) [...]

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Excellent program, allows for monitoring multiple VNC sessions in 1 window (as thumbnails), then double-click to interact with any one sesison. Quite helpful for monitoring multiple systems at once. Runs on Windows, OS X and Linux via Java Jar (for linux, just execute as …) java -jar ./VncThumbnailViewer You can then specify hosts/ports/passwords in command [...]

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Taking a little break, will be back in about (2) weeks.

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Having recently acquired MySQL and Innotek (makers of VirtualBox, the open source VMware) SUN is clearly reading the tea leaves and can see the trends. SUN has been a friend to the open source community for years, having forged Star Office, the forebearer of OpenOffice and releasing the source code for Solaris OS. They’re also [...]

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This is a very amusing bug report submission, and not and April Fool’s joke. The number of posts that follows to help him is rather remarkable in 24hrs, and I’m still following the thread. Here’s his initial post: Linus Torvalds on 2008-03-31 15:37 EST Description of problem: youtube no workee – fedora 9 not usable [...]

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