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Linux and Open Source Blog just had a great little tips & tricks post about modifying a sysctl variable to control how much the system will try to utilize the swap space. Of course, as they mention in the article, if you have large amounts of memory, you may not want a very high [...]

For some time new Lena and I have been interested in finding a good German Foods / Bäckerei since we’ve moved down to Greenville. This last weekend, we had the opportunity to go exploring in Dallas and stopped by a place called Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery. We were very impressed [...]

Once again we find CNN in dire need of a spell checker. Can you spot it?

Webster doesn’t have a definition for mainy, and I didn’t find any actual dictionary entries via a Google “define” search, however the Urban Dictionary has the following entry:

Mainy
Related to Mainiac. When you loose it. To trip out. Go crazy.
Arturo [...]

I know that David Vignoni just posted this to get input from people, however I really do hope it makes the cut. How beautiful can you get?

Klick to see the Icon Godfather goodness…

Many time I’ve found myself needing to perform some form of handling / manipulation of filenames and paths in my perls scripts. So I’ve tweaked a regex I found to one that adds an escape ( ‘\’ ) before each special character (allowing either shell or regex to understand the result). I know [...]

The things I’ve learned as a software engineer are could be concidered innumerable compared to previous work experiences. However the one thing I have definitely learned is how to tinker, more than I ever have before. Many who know me well would probably say I’ve always had that tendency. I forgot how [...]

I just loved this one so much I had to post it here…

Yes, they are a little behind the curve, but it’s better late than never! The pictures say everything…