Things n' Stuff Thoughts about the universe in general

Sorry the for the too much videos lately and not enough actual content, but I’ve seen this and simply couldn’t resist:

Video on Snotr

I’ve yet to comment on ICANN’s new plan for the internet’s so called “top level domain names” (.com, .net, etc’), and I think a very important future aspect of it was overlooked by most critics.

ICANN are planning to open up the process for adding new top level domains¹ to the point where anyone can request to register new top level domains – even in a non-latin script.

Many commenters agree that implementing this suggestion would cause an explosion in the available and used top level domains, and as a result also the number of actual domains registered, which can also be a bad thing – for example, domains named after common file extensions (Firefox.exe anyone?), for specific fringe interest groups or a top level domain per city (The .nyc domain for New York City seems to be the most coordinated).

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1. following the previous expansion of list of generic top level domains where 7 new top level domains were introduced [↩]

תוך כדי קצת Ego Surfing (בעקבות פוסט גניבת הזהות של עירא אברמוב) בגוגל עליתי על הפנינה הבאה:

2 וחצי דקות לתוך הסרט תוכלו לפגוש את עודד ארבל (O-ded במבטא אמריקאי מעצבן – אני שונא שאמריקאים מבטאים את השם שלי כך), הבעלים של משתלת פרחים בפיליפינים (כן, הוא ישראלי לשעבר).

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(Fragment from goats comics by Jonathan Rosenberg reproduced here without permission)

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Suddenly everything makes sense!

1. High-fructose corn syrup is used in North America as the primary commercial non-diet sweetener, found – for example – in all american soft drinks [↩]

I updated the Foxkeh button – Mozilla Japan did it again, check out the Firefox 3 button at the bottom right (and get it here).

Also, check out Foxkeh blog for wallpapers and other cute Foxkeh stuff.

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Bumble B-Boy
by PatrickBoivin

מצא חן בעיניי תנועות המצלמה – בהתחשב בכך שזה stop-motion קלאסי חובבני (לבחור יש עוד כמה כאלה) זה מושקע למדי.

No, I’m not going to compare DPKG and RPM (and definetly not APT and YUM/URPMI/RUG), but I use both (I use Ubuntu at home and on the laptop), and while I’m rather proficient with RPM, I often find myself dumbfounded as to how to do a specific action with DPKG.

Fortunately I’ve found this nice reference that compares DPKG and RPM command line switches. It does provide some of the things that I need to do with my package manager. Unfortunately, some of the more advanced functions (specifically queries) I need are not covered there.

So does anyone know how to to do, using dpkg:

rpm -qf <path to file> – Check to which package a given file belongs. This is very important operation when you are trying to troubleshoot something.
rpm -q --scripts <package> – List what scripts have run or will be run when a package was installed or will be removed. This is important for figuring out what mess a specific package have rendered on your system. with -qp instead, this can be used to examine what mess a specific uninstalled packge will render on your system when it will be installed
rpm -q --provides <package> (and other capabilities and dependencies stuff) is required to figure out what package depends on what and why.

Specifically the first I really need as I constantly use this. any comments are welcome, of course 🙂

למי שלא שמע, ג’ורג’ לוקאס עומד להוציא סרט מלחמת הכוכבים חדש: Star Wars: Clone Wars, וזה יהיה סרט מצויר. רגע, לא כבר ראינו Star Wars: Clone Wars מצויר פעם ? כן – סדרת הקצרצרונים של טראטקובסקי ב-Cartoon Network (שגם משודרת ב-Toonami).

ובכן, לוקאס חולב את הסדרה עד זוב דם ומוציא גרסת Clone Wars חדשה, הפעם ב-CG, שתתחיל עם סרט (להפצה בארה”ב באוגוסט) ולאחר מכן “לפחות 100 פרקים” שישודרו ב-Carton Network וב-‎TNT¹.

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1. שנכון שהיו להם כמה הברקות מד”ב כמו הרכישה של Babylon 5 בזמנו, אבל עם כל הכבוד, TNT הם לא הערוץ שהייתי מצפה להפיץ בו סדרת מד”ב מצוירת [↩]

זה שהמשחק של Penny Arcade יצא בגרסת לינוקס כמו גם גרסת מק (ובאותו יום כמו גרסת החלונות, לפחות כך מספרים לי).

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I kind of collect desktop wallpapers – I have a lot of those, several thousands¹. It is a bit ridiculous as I mostly use maximized windows all the time so if not for the fact that in work I live on the console and I have a transparent terminal, I would rarely see my desktop wallpaper.

That being said, with a wallpaper collection, you want a software to manage it and cycle your desktop through the wallpapers. KDE has this function built it – just go to configure your wallpaper and select a directory of wallpapers, choose whether you want to cycle through the images sequentially or randomly, the delay and your done.

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1. mostly anime and video games fan made as well as promotional walls, a lot of hobby photographs – mine and other people’s, and a few more professionally made art [↩]