Koozie Notes

Linux Rescue CDs

(via NewsForge) Aditya Nag wrote a quick review on three different CDs designed to help you rececovered a hosed computer.

This article reviews three open source rescue CDs: System Rescue CD, LNX-BBC, and CDlinux. These are all small downloads, ranging from 17 to 110MB, specifically designed to perform system rescue. To test the three, I used a recent AMD Athlon 2400+ machine with 256MB RAM, onboard LAN, and a Nvidia graphics card. The test machine had Windows XP Professional loaded on an NTFS partition on a SATA drive and Centos 4 on an ext3 partition on a PATA drive.

-Chris

Why You Should Code in Cocoa

(via MacSlash) Wil Shipley posted a PDF version of his slides from a talk he gave to a few Apple interns on why he thinks you should code in Cocoa. 

I should also mention that if you look at the slides you'll see another picture of my Ardent Red Lotus Elise. This bears mentioning because I actually agonized about whether to show off my car at all, ever. I decided that, in this context, it was OK, because essentially the whole talk is about how if you follow your dream you'll not only be happy, but you'll also be financially secure, and it's easier to believe that kind of advice when it's given to you by someone not LIVING IN A SHACK DOWN BY THE RIVER. I asked some of the students afterwards if they thought the car thing was totally pretentious and they said no, it came off the right way.

-Chris

Terry Tate: Office Linebacker

A friend of mine sent me this humorous link to a short film spoof titled, "Terry Tate: Office Linebacker." [WMV]  Just imagine what would happen, if your boss hired an overzealous, trash-talking, NFL linebacker that would tackle anyone at work not performing to high standards.  I'm still laughing about it.

-Chris

AutoRuns Ver8.0 Released

Looks like the guys at Sysinternals have release an updated version of AutoRuns.

This major update to Autoruns separates autostart types onto different pages of the main window, shows more information about images, integrates with Process Explorer, and adds a couple more Explorer and Internet Explorer addon locations, and improves scanning performance.

-Chris

Laptop Review on Gentoo

James Turner authored a piece on why he thinks Gentoo is the best Linux disto for his laptop.

So what distro am I running on the laptop now? Gentoo, which is probably as far from an install-and-boot experience as you can imagine. For those who haven't experienced Gentoo, everything (including the kernel) comes in source form, and must be recompiled before use. What this means is that your initial install could take a couple of days (almost entirely unattended, luckily).

I tried to install Gentoo about a year ago on some old hardware, but I gave up because it tool to %$^# long to compile and install.

-Chris

Limbaugh Publishes MP3s

Yesterday, while running some errands, I tuned into Rush Limbaugh's daily radio show and was surprised to hear him boast about his new podcast service for premium members.  I guess this podcast craze is catching on to the mainstream.

Limbaugh joins four other Premiere programs already being offered as subscription-based podcasts: Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Art Bell, and the Phil Hendrie, Glenn Beck and Bob and Tom shows. Future podcasts are also planned for the Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Jim Rome programs.

On a side note, Rush stated that he had to remove all his bumper music from the MP3 version of his show because he could not get permission from the copyright holders.  Interesting.

-Chris

[LA Times Article]