Jun 26, 2010
M3talinks for Jun 25th
Today’s M3talinks for Jun 25th Monkeybagel.com: Pumas on Hoverbikes – We've all heard the "herding cats" analogy with regard to managing programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a neighborhood gang of neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty smack habits and opposable thumbs. Oh, and as a manager you're a neurotic junkie puma too, only they cut your thumbs... read more
Jun 23, 2010
M3talinks for Jun 22nd
Today’s M3talinks for Jun 22nd Mensch — A coding font – The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans... read more
Jul 15, 2009
Bookmarks for Jul 14th through Sep 10th
These are my links for Jul 14th through Sep 10th: 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error 20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners – Nettuts+ – Forms can be difficult and sometimes even annoying for users; often, a form interrupts a user's main focus and direction on a page: they're intent on purchasing... read more
Jul 8, 2009
Changing Symlink Ownership
I just encountered the Curious Case of changing the ownership of a symbolic link. I used chown and then…what happened is…well nothing. Or least that’s how it looked. There was no error message and the symlink’s ownership was unchanged. This seemed sub-optimal so I asked Google and a few colleagues and I got the answer, more than once, that you can’t change the ownership... read more
