teatotalling
Originally written 05.03.2002.
marco has been sober for more than two weeks and everyone is surprised. rob seems to miss the old antics, iain doesn’t, and i’m pretty surprised/impressed. i guess marco decided that trying to teach primary schoolers with a hangover would be a bad idea (he’s currently student teaching at a local school). i also think he was starting to scare himself. when asked if he missed drinking he said no and that he certainly didn’t miss not knowing what he did to people the previous night or getting letters from the flats manager regarding his tenancy. looks like ian might end up giving him the #5 that he bet marco over marco’s sobriety for a month.
looks like iain might lay off the drink for a while as well. looked rough this morning and he related a horrific story about vomitting blood in the opium (a alternametal club on the cowgate) bathroom.
well this is interesting. salon reports that post-hippie rockers widespread panic have endorsed a police crackdown on drug dealing and underage drinking at a concert in al. apparently at this concert one person died, allegedly due to drug overdose while another committed suicide in a nearby hotel room.
factoid – making terminal bell shut up
Originally written 05.03.2002.
you can make the terminal bell shut up by adding the line “set bell-style none” to your ~/.inputrc. see the visible bell mini-howto for further info.
factoid – running processes in the background so that they don’t get killed when you log out
Originally written 05.03.2002.
Use the “nohup” command to start up the program. Basically, if you want
to run really_long_program so that it won’t die when you logout, type “nohup really_long_program” at the command line.
and they wonder why we don’t trust them
Originally written 05.03.2002.
saw this article on the LA times website which talks about a potentially shady deal between oracle corp. and the state of california’s it department. don’t feel like sumarizing the entire article, but there was a deal that was supposed to save taxpayers lots of money. apparently the accounting wasn’t quite accurate, and it could actually cost taxpayers a bundle. people have resigned, paper has been shredded. it’s crazy. and people wonder why some get fearful when government and big businesss get together. a really important thing to note is that oracle’s CEO (i think) really wants to have a national id system backended by, guess who, oracle. seemed like a bad idea in the first place, and it seems even worse now. perhaps almost as bad as some other joker (Mark forman, associate director of it at the white house) who wants to use ms passport for an authentication system to be used to allow people and businesses access to information. ugh. if i get this right that means that in the future, if you want to log into a government website, you’re going to be using ms passport. not cool.