Jonathan Franzone Have you ever wanted to create an installer program on a Linux system, but didn’t want all the hassle of an actual install builder? I have. I recently had need of a simple, no frills installation that could: ask the user a few questions extract some binary files and do some stuff with those binary …
Hey, there music lovers! Sorry, it’s been several weeks since I posted a FSOTD. I’ve actually been taking somewhat of a break from blogging altogether. Anyway, here is Bon Jovi‘s Wanted Dead Or Alive from their album, Slippery When Wet (1986). It’s all the same, only the names will change Everyday it seems we’re wasting …
Play Dell’s Synergistic Mission Critical Out-of-the-Box Sweepstakes for a chance to win some really cool tech gear and the main prize of a $10,000 office makeover. Just go on over to DELL.COM/smb/BuzzwordSweeps every day until September 3 (2008) and unscramble buzzwords. They are giving away a computer every day! plus other daily prizes. Once you …
Pain Relievers for Continuous Integration and Agile Development Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008 Time: 2:00 PM Eastern; 11:00 AM Pacific About the Webcast: Do you need: Faster builds? Trouble-free merges? Reliable builds to test against? You’re the build manager. You actually build the product that ships, yet get no respect. You’re on your own to …
Monday’s always get me down. 🙁 So why not take a few minutes to waste some time and exercise your brain at the same time? I friend of mine sent me a link to this website called Fantastic Contraption. The basic premise of the game is get a pink circular (sometimes square) object from the …
The guys that brought you the hilarious Mac or PC music video are up to it again. This time they produced a music video about three guys with mullets, jeri curls, spandex and translucent jackets driving around the Bay Area in an “Invisible Ride“. Enjoy… or be offended. Whichever. * Click through to the site …
So what is The Leviathan? And even more importantly what are the Leviathan Chronicles? Well, in short it’s a podcast. But it is so much more. When you first go to the website you are greeted with an extremely compelling user interface that takes you into another world. Once you read the description of what …
Does Amazon know what I am looking for more than the search phrase that I just typed in? Perhaps… but perhaps not so much. I was recently searching around Amazon for a few separate classes of items. The first thing I searched for was headphones and headsets with microphones. Following that I decided to turn …
So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for –secure-auth and –old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database flags? Nope. I saw two hits. One was a YouTube video of Dr …
This is Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell from his album Rebel Yell. Last night a little dancer Came dancin’ to my door Last night a little angel Came pumpin cross my floor She said honey baby You got a license for love And if it expires Bring hell from above because In the midnight hour she …