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So what really motivates you? Heres a fascinating little video about the use of money as a motivator for work…

I didn’t discover this one, credit to  Schneier for finding it.

The conversation goes something like this:

“Here,” dad to girl, “Get your ID out and have it with your ticket.”

“Excuse me, sir,” said the TSA officer, pointing to the young female, “She does not need to have her ID out, she’s a minor.”

Dad: “How do you know she’s a minor if you don’t look at her ID?”

…. (silence as everyone waits for answer)….

Dad again: “Kind of a hole in the system, isn’t it?”

TSA Officer, voice lowered … “There are a LOT of holes in the system, sir.” … walks away.

Young girl, “Good one, dad. Now tell her our name is LADEN and see what happens!”

Reminds me of the classic Kepner Tregoe quesiton; good, but good for what?

Is using software to work out what folds you need to do, cheating? Who cares! I have always been a fan of folding paper, so I’m quite happy that people spent time to work out what the principles are behind the art, and then applying them in some decent software Happy folding!

You have a classic style, but you’re up-to-date with the latest technology. You’re ambitious, competitive, and you love to win. Performance, precision, and prestige – you’re one of the elite,and you know it.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Clearly Mario’s success  depends in part on the ignorance of his enemies!!!

Go visit goosh.org if you haven’t already. Maybe useful, maybe not. Its an interesting idea, basically something like a *nix shell but for the web. Interesting that you can even up key and it remembers your last command. Might be interesting if they expand it with some kind of scripting ability. Lets just hope its locked down and doesn’t turn into a real shell….or that people don’t mistake this shell for one they already have open….

rm -rf * ………………… “Hey, wheres the Internet gone?……..uh oh………”

Its definitely nice that there are no ads, making it quick to load (despite the fact that the results are heavily abbreviated compared to google.com)

Enjoy!

I often have epic long dreams with huge amounts of detail in them. Occasionally I have a dream that isn’t very long and the details disappear very quickly. Yesterdays xkcd is so true, it makes me wish I could record my dreams and play it back for other people to enjoy

First up, its cute. Thats right, the branding is so adorable, you just want a little puffy, like its was a Pokemon or something. No, but really, I do think the branding tells you something about the product; its lean and functional. Of course, you pick whichever product you feel solves the problem, but heres my reasons for liking openbsd:

1. The download is relatively small: about 207MB for the iso image
2. It takes up little resources: 30MB once booted up (and 13 processes). Of course, you’ll be expecting to load the machine up with services, thats the whole point of a good OS, right? Unless you don’t actually intend on using it…
3. Easy to use ports system. You just download the ports.tar.gz file for your version of openbsd, uncompress and then untar in the right directory (/usr/ports), then navigate to the directory of the software you want and type
make && make install
   Of course, this is only really needed for people who like to compile from source! Everyone else can just use the usual packages system
4. Easy network configuration. You can make a bridged connection with two commands:
ifconfig bridge0 up
brconfig bridge0 add xl0 add fxp0 (insert your own network cards here)
5. It ships with apache! Just type:
   apachectl start and your running! (the htdocs directory is /var/www/htdocs )
6. The documentation is fantastic. No really, it really is good, its always a pleasure to RTM on openbsd
7. After installing a window manager like fluxbox, it takes one command to get it working, provided you want to type startx each time you boot. Also bear in mind you’ll need to add /usr/local/bin/fluxbox to your users .xinitrc file , from a fresh install you’ll need to make this file.
8. It recognised my ancient 3COM pccard Ethernet adapter! I can just pull it out and openbsd doesn’t die, it just kills off the dhclient process that was using it!
9. You get stickers if you buy the CD set!!!

See for yourself!

I really do wonder whether or not this was a real advert that went out, or if it was just an office joke. Either way, thumbs up!