Letter from Steve Jobs, and ahoipolloi’s take on it.
Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda Resigns From Slashdot, first time I went to /. for years.
I am nothing, read this.
SmartOS, Joyent’s OpenSolaris/Illumos fork, now also supports KVM next to Zones, ZFS and DTrace. (And terribly named, why not Joyix or something?)
ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables.
Some have good support for multi-page tables, which I found very
hard to typeset in .
Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH. Does de-dup and encryption, I should check it out.
Why I do not want to work at Google, by Kragen Javier Sitaker.
Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc is a guide for composing well-formed and maintainable UNIX manuals (“manpages”) in the mdoc language.
Biclique cryptanalysis of the full AES, reducing key-space by roughly 2 bits.
Heello is Twitter for Pretending, hilarious.
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck?, by Errol Morris.
Reconnecting your SSH agent to a detached GNU screen session, easiest solution I found.
Interview with M.D. McIlroy, Murray Hill, 18 August 1989.
a letter from _why, from 2005.
Large Objects Shot as Miniatures Using a Giant Coin and Tilt-Shift Effects
5 Million Dollars 1 Terrabyte, art.
Kancho, WJW.