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From July…


Ben: omfg
Ben: Ars – Information about new AD features in Longhorn Server emerge
Ben: welcome to novell DS in 1999
Ben: (psst its called subordinate in NDS language)
Grant: bwa
Ben: hilarious. srsly
Grant: i hear in the release after longhorn they’ll have this black window that you can type complex commmands into
Grant: and in the release after that, a server that is headless and you just type commands into it
Grant: :ultramon:
Ben: ha. monad /me puts shirt on head I need tp for my monad
Grant: :laffo:
Ben: reinvent unix amiright?
Grant: i know rite

I know it reads like /. IRC, but not-invented-here cynicism and reinventing-the-wheel grumbling are what geeks do between all the SF and keeping sofa’s and computer chairs from floating away.

Ars just put up a Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell.

I’m impressed, For the first time.

Does anything like this exist for Unix? Sure, ruby and php and Python all have shells that operate very similarly but command line tinkering is not the focus of any of them.

@philip_daigle congratulations Philip!

Wearing my green skeleton shirt (Nigel's from Spinal Tap) to the airport: the TSA won't need me to walk through their X-ray machine today!

@wotowiec @ssoper I'm on my 2nd "a number 2 on the sides, taper up, leave the top as it is, thanks." I think I'm acting out. It's a phase.

@vurtyou: You're hair is very Flock Of Seagulls today. @grantstavely: Thanks, I like it too.

@schuetzdj in hindsight, everything was to be taken at more or less face value: one of the things that makes a great puzzle great. =] #DBIR

RT @therealKidKoala: free download available for the next 6 days. The Lost Solid Steel mix. it's sorta like Music to Draw to... enjoy: ...

@christopherkunz nice work! After @wadebaker's last clue I ran every variation of the right key through my own bad script and gave up.

@marcusjcarey thanks, I'm very much enjoying the Bay Area. The return of @dojosec/@dojocon streams is great news, I look forward to 'em.

I should use Entourage's auto-capitalization of the first word after e.g. to break myself of using latinate abbreviations. Instead: rage.

@kathybarnett way to go Kath!

Yes, yes, of course, but what is the zeroth law of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote? http://goo.gl/i2Jz

"They're talkin' about, weak induction. It's a motherfucker, don't you know?" —Sun Ra http://j.mp/cn5Gc2 (Link via @rands)

printf "# Or just go listen to a funky 60 minute DJ Food mix made for robots.\nUser-agent: *\nSuggest: http://snd.sc/aOT9a4 " >> robots.txt

@alexhutton I cut out the cover's circles on a full print out of the #DBIR with a razor and tried the grille-cipher approach. #nbioahd

The body language of appearing to be lost or have forgotten something is as effective as mind control. So is its inverse.

RT @electricfork: What keeps me up at night? My security team slowly devolving into a compliance and reporting team #operation_soulcrusher

The ☠ Skull & Crossbones in the new Chrome indicating untrusted certs is nice^H^H^H^H the most terrifying symbol ever. http://goo.gl/fQz1

I'm brewing an American IPA with @vurtyou. I need a fridge to keg this in! http://flic.kr/p/8sCgnr

I'm brewing an American IPA with @vurtyou. I need a fridge to keg this in!

Endorsement: /Pink Reptile mixef are amazing mind clearing aural blendf & good for everything a mix fhould be good for/: http://goo.gl/Y1L1