You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

Instead of killing the process in order to run dhclient to get a new lease, just release it. See? No need to kill it. Now you can ask for another lease.

If you’ve been tricked into believing the lie that software piracy is a bad thing; somehow it’s morally wrong and should be punished heavily, then this little nugget from a story about Sony’s reboot of the Karate Kid franchise should help wake you up.

Reddit has become a lolcat site over the course of a few months. While there are subreddits still flourishing, I’ve pretty much given up on reddit. http://news.ycombinator.com/ it is.

You can use emoticons in google chat and they will be replaced with little animations as soon as you hit send. You can also use bold, italics, strike through, or any combination of them.

Since so many websites use flash, and most computers you come across have adobe flash installed, this vulnerability is kind of a big deal due to the sheer volume of potentially affected computers. Install Google’s Chrome browser. It’s faster than your browser, and while you’re at it, head over to youtube with this link, and try youtube through html5.

You can list the contents of an rpm without installing it first. If you’re not going to build your own from source, you should at least check an rpm before installing it to see what it’s going to install.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
John Gruber must get a lot more hits than me, because he’s really fired up about copy & paste hijacking.
When you copy some text and paste it somewhere else, do you expect to see the exact text you’ve copied? 5-10 years ago, you would say uh, yes. But today, the …

99% of the time you can just use the local address to talk to yourself. This is just an example to show you how wrangle the ip address using awk. Rewrite the hosts file so the host itself can use it’s external address by name. Write out the basic stuff in hosts that doesn’t change then write out the current IP address.

What if there’s no open file to be found, then what? If you were looking for some sort of media file, it might be easy to use a memory based distro with tools like photorec