So it's another article about bitcoin. Well I just wonder how this will turn out. So far it didn't die.

And I wonder if namecoin will come useful after IPv6 will be used widely. Heh, will IPv6 be used? We hope so. How would you DNS such a giant IP space? Maybe namecoin will come more handy that usual means...

is that related to any skills you might need at work?

How did you block them?

I was thinking about adding null direction to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts file, but perhaps there is a better way?

This is the first time that I heard about them. This is a great idea, they have my full support.

Well, it's time to start a new journal (among 100 000 of already existing journals). Create a huge lab, get lots of funding to pay them for their work. And tell the to reproduce every result from every submitted paper. Publish only if result was reproductible. Expensive as hell, but soon that would be the only journal that people will bother to spend time on reading.

that link isn't working. Either it's a wrong link or I just discovered that mu pipe is censored somehow.

correction: of course it was sawmill at that time :)

I still have big sentiment to my first contact with sawfish. It was year 2000, and I was playing with my freshly installed debian box. I got rid of windows about 2 years earlier, and I was experimenting with everything that linux could have bring to me. I tried red-hat for 6 months, slackware, etc. Then I settled on debian. Next I was trying all desktop environments & window managers that dselect was showing in package listing (there was no aptitude at that time).

And I installed one by one, and used it for few days, maybe a week. Some of them felt strange, some felt crippled. Others like enlightement were slick, but looked unfinished. Then I found sawfish. It was nothing - just an empty screen. I was already accustomed with weird window managers, so without fear I tried pressing all buttons. Soon to discover that middle button is everything that I will ever need. I found the sawfish configurator and looked at what stuff I can configure. I was like, "whaaaaaa?"

First of all, I was always annoyed that to move a window I need to grab the titlebar, which sometimes is crazy small. So clickety-click told sawfish that I want to move the window by clicking *anywhere* on the window. And it worked! I clicked on the configuration dialog box, and started to move it around with reverence, which occurs to you, only when your wildest dream comes true.

Then a quick realization come to me: I forgot to use any modifier key. Left clicking on window was *only* moving it. I couldn't even click inside the window to start typing in whatever textbox was there. That was utterly cool & awesome! And of course stupid on my side. I used Tab key, and keyboard navigation to fix this problem in the configuration. Now I could move window only with left-click when Alt was pressed. That was awesome experience.

Next I started trying various themes and window frames, soon to discover that I could use a different window frame for every window! I used Bat theme, and called everyone who was at home to see how ridiculous it is :)

After a day or two I moved to another window manager, and kept trying all WMs that were in debian repository at the time. They all were wrong. Just wrong. Nothing could beat that weird window manager that did allow me to break mouse configuration. But I could not remember its name!

One evening I sat down at my PC determined to find that WM even if I will have to try every WM and every desktop environment that was offered in debian. Took a while, because I needed to find configuration options for given WM and check if it was possible to move window just by left-click dragging without modifiers. It was a shock, because soon I discovered that it is impossible in any of window managers, until few hours late at night I encountered this magical window manager: sawfish. What a happy reunion it was!

I don't think that I ever left sawfish alone, after that time.

I was wondering "why the hell?" TFA says:

"Much of the work Microsoft did centers around providing drivers for its own Hyper-V virtualization technology. Microsoft's Hyper-V, part of Windows Server, can run Linux as a guest OS."

Why that couldn't be included in the summary?

badblocks -c 10240 -s -w -t random -v /dev/sda1

that's my standard test for all HDDs