To shell and back

From: http://xkcd.com/10/

“And everyone’s going to find the real reason why people buy a HP box or an IBM box today is pretty much one piece of equipment - the power supply. Why? Because the grey box vendors haven’t discovered that when you make a 1U rackmount machine, you have to put in a power supply that can run 24/7 for four years. And if you can do that, they’ll buy your box. That’s what HP and IBM and Sun do. They just put a power supply in it, with a good fan so it doesn’t break. Otherwise the machines are identical.”

Loved that. Read the whole interview, titled “Staying on the cutting edge“.

Now averaging less than 4 hours of sleep a day. *I know this isn’t good.*

Congrats to the Mono team. Go play with it.

Check out jobhunt.in.

There is a ton of kewl technology behind this simple website. Will write about it more in the coming days.

Saudi Arabia sure is keeping up with the times.

A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive. More on BBC.

This is a good idea, undoubtedly. I suggest using a simple eyepatch while the country slowly transitions to the one-eyed veil. It sure does look like trendy, comfortable clothing in the hot deserts.

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A few weeks back Sheikh Salih Ibn al-Luhaydan,  the most senior judge in Saudi, said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes. The judge made the comments on a state radio programme.  The fatwa, or edict, was made during a radio program called Light in the Path. Indeed. LA Times, BBC.

Seriously. ****.

Terrific article here: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

Boot time is always perceived as a measure of how “fast” the system is. If a distribution would decide to take some of these ideas, it would be a great competitive advantage over other distros and even other OSes.