This is the 40th anniversary of UNIX. ComputerWorld did a nice timeline of the history of UNIX. As with anything (or anyone) with a 40-year history, there are going to be fuzzy spots and disagreements about what actually happened, but this accounting looks mostly sound to my eyes. And I have been using UNIX/Linux for about 20 years.
A pellet hitting a soap bubble in slow motion. Originally found on Digg. I would have made it this picture, but I have a hard time believing it’s real. And science rules!
Need more? Check out the Sign Language picture gallery on The Telegraph.
This is a humorous short video on the day in the live of a young Oxygen atom.
Produced by Christopher Hendryx as his thesis for the department of Computer Animation at the Ringling College of Art + Design, Oxygen is a really cool 3D animated short featuring Oxygen as our main hero, with various other elements thrown in as supporting characters.
Yes, you read it right. According to CNN by way of Slashdot, GM is selling it’s Hummer division to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. of China. They will still be made here for a while, so lots of jobs stay here.
I got a link to this post from the Agile Alliance LinkedIn group. Yes, it’s an article about Agile software development. I love Agile (and rolled out Agile practices at my previous employer). It’s about people who go through the motions of Agile without really doing it, let alone understanding it.
If you’re not into Agile, though, the whole cargo cult meme is fascinating, and worth reading about.
I just moved my server from Fedora 8 (way discontinued) to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. Many networking problems and other wildly different config files. Much sleep lost. But now I have the website back up, webmail working, the Wiki is working, mail with IMAP working, and MythTV working.
Yes, indeed, much sleep lost.
Last night was another night of going to bed after 2AM, but I finally got all the critical set up and working. This is a very multipurpose box. Off the top of my head, it hosts mail in (SMTP), mail out (IMAP), this blog, my Wiki, mailman, subversion, home automation software, and database. I still have a lot to do, but nothing that’s going to keep me up late again.