For those who don’t yet know what its about!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o[/youtube]
And then we get to make fun of it too!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w[/youtube]
Oh ‘n I figured out how to add videos painlessly. W00T
Who’d have thought that something as silly as Choqok trying to automatically log into Twitter might get me temporarily locked out?
Oh well. I’m patient.
Its amazing how much you can do by combining the small yet powerful commands Unix has available.
This little-used command, time, finally became useful today as a way to report the length of time that certain automated operations are running. In my example, I’m timing how long it takes to build the Linux kernel:
$ time rebuild-kernel26
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couple-thousand-lines-of-scrolling-text
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Have you previously realised that www is redundant? If so, I’m preaching to the converted and you can run along back to whatever you were busy with. Otherwise, stand to attention, soldier!
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When I’m browsing the web, I’d much less prefer to type “www.xkcd.com” than “xkcd.com”. Reason being that if *every* site [...]
I finally got Ignite Realtime’s Spark to work. I don’t particularly like Spark – its a necessity though and I’m sure others have had trouble with it.
As some readers might be aware, I’m using 64-bit Arch Linux. Spark runs on top of a JRE, independent of the base platform. Therefore, this shouldn’t be an issue. [...]
