Countdown to the Unix Epoch time being 1234567890

Hans Reiser was found guilty of first-degree murder

The American developer Hans Reiser, author of the well known file system RaiserFS was found guilty of first-degree murder of his ex-wife Nina Reiser. Nina disappeared September 2006. He faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison. Sentencing is set for July 9th 2008.His lawyer is going to appeal against the court decision. […]

Quick package search in Debian/Ubuntu/etc.

Here is a simple command for searching for “ruby” in the Tag: fields in Debian’s package lists: # egrep -hr ‘^(Package:|Tag:.+ruby)’ /var/lib/apt/lists|grep -B1 ^Tag|grep ^Package|cut -d\ -f2-|tr \\n \||xargs -I{} echo apt-cache –names-only search ^\({}\)\$|sort|less Cool , huh 🙂Read the whole thing @ http://dontdothat.livejournal.com

The Linux kernel became 17

Yes, 17 years ago Linus Torvalds posted the first piece of information related to his open source project.The message was posted in the russian google group on 26/08/1991, 09:12 by Linus Benedict Torvalds and you can see it here. So this is quite an important date for the community that supported and still supports the […]