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My New Favourite Animal
This week's star is the squirrel
Squirrels can burrow or chew into just about anything. They have caused dam failures, major power outages, and taken down NASDAQ twice. Squirrels are omnivorous but can't digest cellulose. Some squirrels have been known to kill and eat other animals, including a chicken and a snake. They can be trained to do tricks, eat from your hand, and be kept as pets. Squirrel meat is highly regarded in some parts of the US and Britain, although the American Heart Association says it is high in cholesterol :) And just try keeping them out of your bird feeders.
- Swapping Caps Lock and Control
- Explains how to swap Caps Lock and Left Control in KDE, Gnome, vanilla X-Windows, and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP.
- A Short Guide to Getting IPv6
- We recently got a nice chunk of IPv6 space (real production space, not an experimental prefix) from the nice folks at Hexago, so I thought I'd share the initial experiences and a bit of a how-to guide for people getting started with IPv6...
- What is a hardline, anyway?
- We occasionally get asked this question. Some people think it means we have some kind of extremist views, or strongly-held beliefs - this is totally not the case...
- Setting Up a Spam Honeypot
- The concept is simple - make a mailbox that adds the sender's host IP of any mail received to a blacklist, then refuse mail from those hosts in the future. You entice spammers to send to the mailbox by posting the address in a prominent place. I use this with exim4, and here's how...
- An example .screenrc file
- Put this in ~/.screenrc and enjoy...
- Emacs Notes
- #1. Making Alt the Meta key under X. Put this in the $HOME/.Xmodmap file ! Rebind keys to permit Alt key to be Meta in Emacs...
- A Detachable, Remote-Controlled X Desktop
- This (rather old, re-posted) article explains how to set up an X desktop session that can be detached and reattached like GNU screen handles terminals...
- Why Software Sucks
- I was playing with some GUI toolkits recently, and looking at the sizes of typical Hello World applications with various toolkits, platforms and languages. It's really apalling...