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.

ATI allows xorg.conf to have the normal customized settings you’re used to for X, but it relies on this little PCS database at /etc/ati/amdpcsdb for driver configuration. If you have a customized amdpcsdb, or a binary installation from your favorite package manager is screwing up your X when using the fglrx driver, try reverting back to the default ATI settings.

You’ve added a whole directory to get checked into subversion, and then realized you forgot to remove the binaries, or perhaps you had some hidden files, .nfs0001 or thumbs.db or something else you just don’t want to commit. There’s two ways to undo this situation.

MyInternetServices.com is having a Battlefield Bad Company 2 contest this month during the Beta release. It started on February 9th and ends the day the beta expires. Each week, they will give a prize to the beta player that accumulates the most dog tags. In game, you receive a dog tag for each knife kill you perform. Each week they will be giving away $250 in prize money.

I just logged into my gmail to find “buzz”, a new feature integrated into my gmail. I’m not quite sure what to think of it. Other than google, I don’t think anyone wants status updates in their gmail, but perhaps I’m wrong? I’d rather see Wave integrated, once it stops hiccuping of course.

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?

Death by Dynamically linked libraries. The binary file was compiled with the dependency of one or more shared libraries. The libraries needed by the application you’re trying to execute are not included in the binary itself, they have to reside on your system.

I can see a use of this type of attack for getting around captchas. If I host a web page that gives you access to download free mp3s, and all you have to do is complete a captcha to get it, what if I get that captcha from another site? I mean, when you load my page, I load the site I want to attack and show you their captcha instead?! That would basically make you my captcha-cracking conscript!

The default out-of-the-box installation should delete any additional anonymous users after installation and disallow remote logins completely, but it doesn’t. At least all you have to do is run the mysql_secure_installation script to do so.

Apache fails to start with Unknown DAV provider: svn? when you try to start the Apache service. Install the mod_authz_svn.so and mod_dav_svn.so modules and specify the LoadModule lines in your configuration.