Fixing Supervisor on Ubuntu 11.04
So, you’ve just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, and now Supervisor doesn’t work. You need a workaround, but don’t want to touch any of the files managed by apt. Here’s what to do.
Recent Articles
A Brief History of Unix
Back in 2004, I posted an extremely brief history of Unix to the SDF internal BBS. I recently found a copy of it and am posting it here for posterity.
Finally, My New Layout
Graphic design is hard!
Total Nerd Meme
It’s like a chain letter, but for Unix nerds.
Recent Bookmarks
These are periodically retrieved from my my Pinboard account.
NY Times: Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track
The article suggests that “maybe students intending to major in STEM fields are changing their minds because those curriculums require more work, or because they’re scared off by the lower grades, or a combination of the two.” That sounds about right — when I was in college, I worked my ass off day and night for lousy grades.
Krugman: Nobody Understands Debt
“Deficit-worriers portray a future in which we’re impoverished by the need to pay back money we’ve been borrowing. They see America as being like a family that took out too large a mortgage, and will have a hard time making the monthly payments. “This is, however, a really bad analogy in at least two ways.”
Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes?
“Look, everyone makes mistakes. It’s true. But not all of us have the chance to make mistakes that end up costing millions of dollars in hardware and production support costs.”
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix
Stories like this are what inspired me to learn to program.
Underscore.php
This is awesome! Brian Haveri ported the popular Underscore.js to PHP 5.3, rejuvenating the entire language with a much-needed set of clean and elegant utility functions. And I can’t wait to be able to use this with PHP 5.4’s new array syntax.
MacWorld: Four Lion Terminal hacks
Why does Apple add more annoying crap to each version of OS X?
How Many Words Do You Know?
My score: 31,900.
A Walkthrough of the standard C abort(3) Function
If you understand what the headline means, this link is for you. Read it immediately and be amazed.
Twitter Activity
“Using this extension makes me feel like I’m slapping @gruber in the face every time I do a page load. It’s excellent!” http://bit.ly/blYPuq
The iPhone 4’s reception issues are inexcusable. Apple built its reputation with hardware and software that “just works.”
Now “Bill and Ted and Batman’s Excellent Adventure” I can get into. #movieswithbatman
The obvious #movieswithbatman is “Angel and the Batman,” but I’d much rather see “Sex, Lies, Videotape, and Batman.” Then again, maybe not!
RT @malcolmt Yes!! 80’s-style remake of Firefly opening sequence: http://io9.com/5582513/
Great CoffeeScript presentation at #pymntos tonight.
Monthly timesheets are due, and you’re *way* behind? No problem: svn log —revision ‘{2010-06-01}’:HEAD | more
Totally unfair: @BestBuy wants to fire the guy who made those hilarious iPhone v. EVO YouTube videos. http://tinyurl.com/3a8odzw
Wow, there sure are a lot of marijuana-themed apps in the Android Market.
Just switched to Android from an original iPhone. So far, so good.
