This is simple but striking.

This is a fascinating set of videos that were take by Converse (the shoe company) of several Oakland area spraycan artists from the early 90s. The commercials were never used.

The "short" commercials are so different from the lengthier interview footage. It's like night and day, or, maybe, "child" and "young adult".

See: the videos

Nice Mullets!

See: http://crayone.com/ for more.

Additionally, this fascinating article about vernacular mathematics, and stylized graffiti as a form of community cryptography: Street Math in Wildstyle Graffiti Art.

This is an awesome tutorial on how to kill this annoying process that forces the owner to run SBS as a domain controller.

It's also a great howto about permissions in Windows.

We have to do this because Microsoft Marketing decided that every copy of SBS should run as a Domain Controller. If you happen to have two licenses of SBS, and want to turn one SBS into a plain-old-server for file-serving purposes, or some other lesser use that would benefit from a leaner OS setup, you cannot. SBS forces you to do the "domain" thing, or you can go purchase another license for the regular Win2k3 Server.

This is why I prefer to deal with Linux. Less marketing scheme BS. Almost everything is licensed free, per seat, per cpu, or per machine.

Finally, after all these years, I've installed Gentoo. It's really nice, and reminds me of BSD Ports, except that the documentation is more thorough. Ports is good, but Gentoo's emerge is really, really nice. It's also fast, as expected, and took a long time to build, as expected.

See: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-231700.html

KVM switchers read the ScrLk LED, switching computers when the see the LED toggle. Normally, you toggle it by pressing Scroll Lock twice. Ubuntu doesn't accept ScrlLock, and doesn't turn the LED on. Not finding a way to enable it, I opted to use the suggestion in the linked article, and created a KVM switching script.

The script here creates a new command, switchkvm.

echo "xset led on; sleep .25; xset led off" > switchkvm
chmod a+x switchkvm

I put an icon in my toolbar so it's one click away. Attached in an ugly icon for it.