Carpe Decorum

Dogs demand fair play: dogs in the test refused to play if they received less valuable treats (or none) than other dogs. Theorizing, some scientists think fair play or social justice may underpin the…

Ridding Vista of wireless connectivity, a sysadmin’s saga. Of course, running as a limited user is much simpler under Vista. The digital tv access is pretty sweet too. But as for the rest? Bah.

Coffee musings

Via kottke, best 2008 book cover designs.

The Codex Sinaiticus is digitized. (The less said about the BBC announcement the better.) It is believed argued to be the oldest extant version of the BIble, dating from about the 4th century.
See…

No, not the year, but the number of over votes (a vote for more than one candidate in a given race)  that appeared in the tallies for 13 separate District of Columbia primary races. Per the…

The DC Board of Elections and Ethics blamed the overcounting of write-ins on a defective cartridge, while the manufacturer, Sequoia, said its equipment was not responsible to the Washington Post. The…

The problem: a “bad memory cartridge” which counted a surprising number of write-ins In one precinct. At least it doesn’t appear to have affected the outcome.

So an installation of OpenLDAP depends on Cyrus-SASL already being installed. So far so good. But Cyrus-SASL is looking to have an LDAP feature installed so it will work. What the ???
Seems like the…

Corporate PC Power Consumption Difficult to Reduce from Ars Technica.
The problem is enabling power-saving features at the hardware level, having the right drivers and settings at the software level,…