I hate configuring things like GPS devices that run super restricted verisons of linux or some other OS. They never seem to deal with error handling very well. For example, here’s the oddball command for fetching ntp.conf and ntp.keys from a ntp server onto a Symmetricom GPS receiver. This is what you want to see, it just works. But in the many failures leading up to this configuration, it was finding problems fetching the files or having the correct access but it was happily coasting right along, overwriting its own configuration with jibberish and rebooting it self only to find the configuration was bollocks.

Slashdot added facebook and twitter buttons into their RSS feed halfway through the day yesterday. Please make it stop! The shear number of buttons out there for or digging old reddit news, tweeting this, or sharing that are driving me insane! I smell a greasemonkey script in the works.

Why cat something and pipe it into grep when grep can easily search a file by itself. It’s like taking your car to the dealership so you can change your own oil. What? No that doesn’t really make any sense. But neither does piping cat into grep. If you’re dealing with large files or complicated expressions, the reason you shouldn’t cat something into a pipe just to grep it becomes obviously clear.

Give me a real netbook any day of the week. Touch screen is nice, but I just can’t get on the Apple band wagon. I’ve tried, believe me I’ve tried. The sad part is, we’re conditioned to Apple’s dictatorship. There’s no expectation of an Apple device to allow you to do what you want with it. We’ve never known freedom with any apple device, so why should we expect it now?

It’s easy to see which side you’re on Bono-the-digital-suppressor. Why you even bothered to mention America in that statement, I have no idea. You should get together with Metallica and start a clan.

I got booted with this message after watching a replay of a guy using an aimbot to instantly target my head while simultaneously being able to see everyone in the game, right through the walls.

The default installations of Fedora 12 (64-bit intel and 32-bit ppc, at least) are really bloated. There are tons of new packages that don’t belong in a default installation. There are a ton more than I just don’t have any need for. To be fair, you can do a net install which gives you a smaller footprint to begin with and you have the option to customize the installations to avoid installing anything you don’t need in the first place. But do I really need special support packages for specific Lexmark printers by default? How about cheese, ivtv-firmware, or fpaste?