Daily Notes (2002-09-29)

Phew. It’s already Sunday.

O’Reilly (O’Reilly) is about to release a book called “Mac OS X for Unix Geeks” (Mac OS X for Unix Geeks) shortly, with this cover:

Mac OS X for Unix Geeks cover
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks cover

And for now, I’m going to sleep.

BOFH questionnaire header
BOFH questionnaire header
The BOFH Questionnaire: How Geeky Are You? (you can still define BOFH.)

The Blinkenlights crew released GNUPod 0.2 today to use the iPod under Linux. I also left a bunch of loose ends on Acamados for people to pick up.

“CGIs with steroids” (SpeedyCGI).

Turn your Linux into a Windows clone with XPde (screenshots: XPde screenshots).

My photo album is back in a minimalist format for now—easier to keep that way since I haven’t finished the thumbnail generation code.

Notes about the Cafeína article responding to a FilipeCarvalho post:

1) Let it burn; pointless flames can be ignored. 2) Intimacy, personal opinions and themed logs aren’t mutually exclusive. 3) (Bonus) The oldest national sport is bad‑mouthing what gets done in Portugal, even when people are too lazy to understand the reasons.

Blue Marble and Envisat: ultra‑high‑resolution Earth images (Blue Marble, Envisat) courtesy of RodrigoCunha, our resident space/exploration expert; also the X rendering model (X render model) and assorted tidbits.