“Ooooh, that smell! Can’t you smell that smell?” ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd on Stench A pioneer British punk band formed in 1974, Stench is largely credited with starting the trend of naming yourself after something disgusting in order to sound anti-social. Copycat acts included: Vomit, The Boogermen, and Smegma. Origins Ralph Featherstonehaugh formed Stench as an [...]

Total estimated cost to develop Debian Linux 3.1 (“Sarge”)? 191.6 billion dollars. Yes, SLOC can be a somewhat contentious measurement seeing as it can be hard to agree what ‘a line of code’ is, especially when you compound the fact that identical functions can be done in different programming languages with varying amounts of code [...]

No X? Hate X? Laptop runs on coal? Here’s a list of console apps I’ve compiled from various articles and discussions around the net. Some of these are included with distros, some not. Some are actively in development, some not. Feel free to make additions or comments. Audio: abcde (CD Ripper) http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php lame (MP3 Encoder) [...]

As of Firefox 1.0.6 (Debian), FF still does not respond to email links in webpages. I have no clue why configuration of an external email program isn’t built into FF’s preferences yet, but it’s simple enough to configure if you haven’t already done so. (1.) Open Firefox, type “about:config” (no quotes) in the address window, [...]

To make a favicon (that icon that appears before http:// in the address bar of your browser): (1.) Install xpm2wico (xpm to Windows ico converter) using APT. (2.) Capture and shrink or create/edit a 16×16 graphic in GIMP, KIconEdit, etc. (3.) Save your image in X PixMap Image (xpm) format. (4.) Open a console to [...]