Damn Small Linux (or DSL) is another Linux distribution that deserves a closer look someday. It's light enough that it should even run on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM and it can run fully in RAM with only 128MB of RAM.
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SystemRescueCd is my favorite Linux live CD's for system recovery and related tasks. It is based on Gentoo and comes with all the right toys to make me happy. :-)
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If I ever have to do some SEO again, I'll try the Keyword Research Tool to make some improvements to my keyword selection process.
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Sabayon Linux seems like an interesting distribution to try some day. Maybe.
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Aaron Clauset, Cristopher Moore and M.E.J. Newman published a paper in Nature about the automatic extraction of hierarchical structure of networks: Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks. There's a free PDF of the paper on Mark Newman's personal website.
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The 10th of October, 2009. This was the day that I committed social suicide. Now, I'm dead. I can't begin to tell you how peaceful it has been since I died, but I will anyway: “It feels fucking great!”
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Some things that every new web developer should know.
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Through this article on A List Apart, I came across a new project called eCSStender, which aims to make it easier to implement and test new CSS features across different browsers using JavaScript. As a side effect it can also be used to avoid having to fork your CSS code if you want to use cutting edge CSS features that are not yet available in all browsers.
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Because I used it successfully before, I decided to use scrAPI to scrape the entries from the old Aihato guestbook. After preprocessing the HTML a bit, I finally got beyond an endless debugging sessions (which cumulated in me discovering a whole collection of nested <html> tags, which forbad any type of sensible parsing of the page).
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I don't believe in system passwords if they're not backup by some type of disk encryption. It's simply too easy to circumvent by changing a few boot parameters or by inserting a good boot disk. For performance reasons, I've decided against using full-disk encryption for my laptop and even against encryption for my home folder. This makes typing in a password to login a mere annoyance. Admittedly, my laptop features a fingerprint reader, but at the time I couldn't get it to work and it still requires me to type in my username, which I find just as superfluous. Also, fingerprints aren't that secure either.
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