There’s a Star Wars Fan Film Awards, lots of funny entries (make sure to look at the Sith Apprentice).
As seen on /.

I’m quite disappointed to learn that the new Daft Punk track, “Robot rock”, is a rip of a mid-1970 music, titled “Release the beast” from “Breakwater”. Sure, they add a drumkit and used vocoder for the “Robot rock” sample but the main melody is from the other track.

Not mine in fact but all the shared Samba files from the - probably dead - hard drive of the repository server at my job office. Thanks Mondo !
From Mondo about page :
It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data [...]

Like a lot of people, I receive weekly or monthly opt-in emails from vendors but I’m always surprised it’s from “donotreply”. Not very engaging. If you’re sending emails, people look to sender name, and a more friendly “From” would be appreciated. Furthermore, even if the mail contains links, the customer get it in his [...]

Print lines between 20 and 30.
perl -ne ‘print if 20 .. 30′ file
Change foo into bar in specified files.
perl -pi -e ’s/foo/bar/g;’ file
Hits for specific day (replace with `date ‘+%d/%b/%Y’` for today, but check out for locale).
grep -c 22/Mar/2005 access_log
Delete Mailer-Daemon mails from Postfix queue (check yours before running it).
mailq | perl -lne \
‘m/^([A-Z0-9]+).*MAILER-DAEMON/ && [...]

The ColorZilla extension for Firefox is not only for picking colors (that’s already useful)but it also provides a neat DOM inspector, a Javascript object browser (both definitly needed when you play with dynamic HTML from Javascript).
Be sure to use the “Find a node to inspect by clicking on it” button !

This morning is one of these mornings where everything goes wrong. I got woke up by my cat yelling about his food (but that’s quite usual), I almost broke my ankle slidding on a shoe, my soap jumped out of the bath-tub, but far enough so that I could not catch it, obliging me [...]

My company use a ssh server with a non standard port - yes, it’s security via obscurity and it-is-not-good - and the svn+ssh://host:port/path syntax do not work. The correct way to address that is to use a tunnel added in ~/.subversion/config :

[tunnels]
foo = /usr/bin/ssh -p 1234

Then use it this way : svn co svn+foo://remote/path/trunk project

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