Linux already has one - it's called Firestarter and it's great. Integrates with the gnome desktop and let's you specifiy a per-process inbound and outbound access policy. It's in the main ubuntu repos last time I checked, but that was Hoary... Check out it here.

Heh.

"Google Chrome: Do Less. Faster."

And tell me again why we're molly-coddling this people? Folks see enough of their favorite parts of the internet go dark due to having legacy browsers that can't properly render the pages and they WILL upgrade, just like people upgraded from analog to digital over-the-air television. Good news is you don't even need a fourty-dollar mail-in coupon to get a new web browser.

I dunno how many other folks will get this as you're catering to a niche within a niche, but I laughed. Thanks.

Yeah, I gotta say Win2k8 is easily the best version of Windows I've seen in eight years for a workstation.

Yeah, it's funny actually but it's the recent economic hiccup we've had that has the station I work for comitted to turning off analog in February. It's gonna save us about 20,000 bucks a month just in electricty.

I named my first Linux box 'baga' because it made me smile at the bash prompt:


root@baga


A member of the turnip family...

Okay, the Internet-face-stab machine is quickly becoming a meme around here. Is there a Wikipedia page in place yet? Because if not, there should be. I look forward to tracking the spread of this meme, especially if it should become a reality :)

Yeah, the government program-approved DTV boxes are super bare-bones and not really something worth hacking on. The most featureful one available at this time is made by Scientific Atlantic. I saw a very nice feature comparison of all the available coupon-redeemable boxes on AVSForum not too long ago. Might wanna have a look over there. Secondly, don't count on your coupons actually working. That program's outta money and the last couple of folks I've seen try to redeem their coupons at stores were SOL.

"Chyron" and "well made interface" should never appear in the same sentence.

People that can't use grep properly: cat'ing a file and piping it to grep is completely unnecessary. Ditto grep'ing a file for a particular string then piping that to wc for a line count. Grep does both, and can save you a ton of typing.