This idea has been brewing for awhile, but this article finally gave it some shape. Bob Lutz (big car guy formerly of GM, Chrysler, Ford, and BMW) insists that climate change is a bunch of garbage and Neil deGrasse Tyson (famous science communicator) tells him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
»The Motorola Atrix Laptop Dock orginally debuted at a price of $500 a little less than a year ago. Disappointing sales figures led to discounts and today you can now get them on AT&T’s site for 1/10 of that price. It is my opinion that this is a spectacular idea that simply failed in execution. This is the future of computing. One device to rule them all.
»“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
»And neither am I. I don’t get mail like this on my Gmail account, but every once someone like Mr. Patrick K. Chan, Chief Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the Hang Seng Ltd. Bank in Honk Kong makes it past my Hotmail spam filter.
»My web server sits in the baby’s room at my house and the only thing plugged into it is power and network. This is fine for just about everything that I do, but every once in awhile, I have a problem that requires a user interface. VNC to the rescue. Ubuntu comes with Vino, a little VNC Server, pre-installed. You can go to System > Preferences > Remote Desktop to set a password, turn off local user verification, and turn on desktop sharing (as opposed to just viewing).
»Update: This post was written more than 13 years ago, but for some reason it is still getting a decent amount of views. At this point, you should all stop using Subversion and move to Git.
»Update: This post has garnered a lot of attention. So I’d like to clarify up front: this article is not about hacking into other databases. This is about configuring a server you own so that you can access it from a remote machine on the same network. It is completely insecure and should never be used for production deployments.
»An ethernet frame has a minimum size of 64 bytes and a maximum size of 1500 bytes. Anything shorter than the 64 byte minimum is interpreted by receiving stations as a collision.
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