22 Mar
So I don’t really care for CentOS. It’s a project the builds binary packages from the source provided by Red Hat as part of RHEL (That would be Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and then gives them out for free. Great concept. But it’s distributing Red Hat, and the Red Hat folks don’t even like them. [...]
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14 Feb
If I hear one more person pronounce the word “daemon” as “damon”, I’m gonna go crazy. Well, maybe not. Probably too late for that already.
But, either way, it’s quite annoying. I really don’t understand why people are so uncomfortable with saying the word “demon” when talking about computers. They look at “daemon” and [...]
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23 Mar
You know, sometimes I’m amazed at just how quickly UPS and other carriers can deliver packages. I can give a package to a driver tonight, and have it in New York by 3 pm tomorrow. That’s pretty impressive. However, there are times when their performance is considerably less impressive. Take, for example, my recent shipment. [...]
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