du you on a Mac?

There’s a neat command on Macs (and Linux) named ‘du’ which according to the man page (man du) stands for disk usage. Obviously, I’m talking Terminal here, specifically Terminal.app (which in actuality, is not really a file at all, but a folder containing many files which OS X treats as a single file application in [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 on an iMac

I bought an iMac. I booted it up on an Ubuntu 9.04 boot CD and… it actually worked! Wowza. I’m already running it virtually in Mac OS X under VirtualBox. If I knew how, I’d create a partition for it and triple-boot with Windows, but I’ll have to research that. I will say BootCamp is [...]

The Birth of AJAX – An Amazing Story

The Birth of AJAX – An Amazing Story.

Fedora Solved

If you use Fedora Linux, try Fedora Solved for solutions. Also, try Fedora Unofficial FAQ (currently up to Core 5). These are great sites. The folks on IRC network irc.freenode.net in channel #fedora have been very helpful, as well.

The Best Little Archiver You’ve Never Heard Of

7-Zip is the best little archiver you’ve never heard of. Enough said.