The Internet's content can be split into many pieces, but it can be characterised into just 2 (well 3 if you count all the porn!): what people know and what people think.
What people know is simple; it includes all the journals, academic papers, rese… more »
Archives for: "January 2012"
Homework: write opening and first scenes, try to introduce aspects of the characters without explicitly referencing them.
Jeff leaned over the guard rails of the bed. His eyes were bloodshot and his cheeks were wet with tears. The little girl looked… more »
There are many people who turn their noses up at Science Fiction films and yet the majority of people do like them, it's just they re-classify them in their mind. I over heard a conversation in the pub on Friday.
John: Don't like SciFi.
Al: What a… more »
How time flies? It only seemed like yesterday that I installed CentOS 5.4 at a customer site. This week I needed to update rsync from 2.6.8 to what ever the latest version is. So I typed
yum update rsync
and got the following message.
Loaded plugin… more »
In order to format a USB device under Unix you need to follow these simple steps under the root user account.
Find out the name of the device file representing the USB hardware device:
If the system is busy I clean out the dmesg to make it easie… more »