Fun with gengetopt
The GNU operating system is full of easter eggs hidden in plain view. Depending on what repositories you elect to tell your packager about, you could spend an entire day discovering useful things that you never knew existed. Many of these trinkets are part of (or work with) the GNU build system. I’ve known about [...]
Thats ‘B.O.F.H., P.I.’ to you – mister!
I was just reading that South Carolina may soon require those who offer data forensics as a service to be fully licensed private investigators. I wish that every other State would follow suit. In college, I started out as a criminal justice major. My criminal justice classes were the only classes that I attended eagerly [...]
How McAfee hurts innovation
McAfee recently warned investors that using ‘open source’ software could result in unanticipated (or ancillary) obligations resulting in disclosure of proprietary code, citing ‘ambiguous’ language in the GPL. This is rather ironic because McAfee has not cited one ‘ambiguous’ sentence in the GPL, only suggesting that some exist. What McAffe has done is built a [...]
More SPAM stopping trials, no luck
I’ve been experimenting on ways to nip comment SPAM in the bud. Ever since noticing that Google sent me more robots than humans, I’ve been really frustrated. This is the scenario. Bot starts up, bot queries Google to see who shows up in the top 20 results for keyword ‘fud’, bot sees if each result [...]
What happened to GRSH?
A dozen or so people have written in to ask me what happened to GRSH (Gridnix Shell), our souped up version of dash with special built-ins for ease of clustering. I took the repository down, I’ll explain why. GRSH started out using the POSIX compliant mini shell, dash, which is distributed under the less restrictive [...]
Major updates to SRCE
For those of you using SRCE, there are many updates available. SRCE may soon find its way to being included in several popular GNU/Linux distributions, so I’ve taken the past few weeks to try and properize everything. SRCE is also (very soon) to be included with GNUPanel to provide OS abstration and a control mechanism [...]
So I committed blogger suicide, I banned Googlebot
Google sends me (almost) nothing but spammers who hope to plant links to gain page rank. Very seldom does a Google referrer ever result in a long term user. Usually, it results in yet another spammer trying to plant links. If I write something before the major tech sites get wind of it, I’m buried [...]
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