This is possibly the most random group of links I have ever posted. Hopefully I will get back to posting real articles in a couple days.
- The Ubuntu Guide. Useful information for other Linux distributions as well. Like getting buttons 4 & 5 working on a mouse.
- IE 4 Linux — A drop and install version of IE for Linux. Uses a pre-configured, pre-built version of wine to work. Requires no outside wine configuration to get working. Perfect for web developers who need to test IE support for their websites on Linux.
- Upstart— A dependency-based system replacement for init on Unix systems. Works to solve dependancy startup issues by “pausing” a service until it’s needed resources become available. In this way it’s more intelligent than the more common init replacement, Initng.
- Advice to students— By Peter Norvig to the 2006 graduating class of UC Berkley CompSci department.
- Industry vs. Education— YES!!! One I kinda remember something about. This is a brain dump from a guy who has experience working for a univerity (doing research) and then working for a business (also doing research.) Covers the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches to knowledge gathering.
- No Sympathy for Students— A college professor lists the top ten things he ignores on end of semester course questionnaires. GREAT comment on what is wrong with entitlement students and how they view education.
- The Dutch Wind Carpet— The Dutch Wind Carpet is the largest off-shore wind farm in the entire world. It has a max capacity of some 2,500 MW of power. This article has some really interesting information on the coast/benefit breakdown of the carpet along with its overall weaknesses (not the least of which is an average 20% output from full capacity.)
- HowTo Build KDE4— The first developers build of KDE was released a couple weeks ago. This describes how to get it built on your Linux system.
- Kerberos & LDAP— Using these two technologies for centralized management of an enterprise system.
- Reason and Logic— Gödel and the limits of logic. Rundown of his life and the problems he discovered with number theory.
- Two Dogmas of Empiricism — Willard Van Orman Quine’s famous attack on logical positivism.