need a sysadmin? March 10, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : work, geek , 1 comment so farFor the past several days, I have seriously started trying to find some freelance linux sysadmin work. I found a nifty website that helps hook people who need stuff done with people who can do said stuff. The gist of the site is that someone (who doesn’t want to pay much) creates a writeup of a service they need, then lots of someones (who want to be paid more then the other someone is offering) bid on the job. At some point the needing someone picks a providing someone and the project is underway. From what I can tell, the fee for all of the someone hooking up that the website does is a mere 10%. I think that is pretty fair. I have already got my first little job so I’ll be sure to follow up on this post when it’s all said and done.
funny IM March 7, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : misc , add a commentOne of my co-workers, Tim, messaged me the following this morning. It was too good not to share:
so I needed to look at the man page for ‘touch’ to do something I don’t normally do. I went to search for it on google because the formating is better to read than on a terminal. Searching for ‘man touch’ in google brought up things I wasn’t thinking about this morning.
Thanks for the morning laugh Tim.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, BLOG READS YOU! March 3, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentSUPERLOLZ:
new browser
Posted by Phillip in : geek , add a commentMajor props to Cory for running this blog entry that inspired me to start using Camino. Camino is yet another web browser brought to us from the always innovating folkes at the Mozilla Project. The nice thing about Camino is that it was developed especially for Mac users in mind. It seems to take the best features of Firefox and Safari and roll them up into once really nice looking browser.
One feature that Cory mentioned is the ability to store passwords in Mac’s Keychain, to be honest, I didn’t really think I would care where I saved my passwords at first. But after having to re-save them all (switching from Firefox -> Camino), I realized that had my other browser integrated into Keychain, I would not be doing this. There are some other cool looking features too, but I have already noticed two featurs that Camino is lacking, foXpose being one and more search engines in the toolbar being another. The search engine thing is probably an easy fix, I just need to poke around a little more. I was digging the foXpose though (another Cory recommendation), so I hope they toss support for that in.