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The GNU Awk User's Guide: The GNU Awk User's Guide This file documents awk, a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them. This is Edition 3 of GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's Guide for GNU Awk, for the 3.1.0 version of the GNU implementati / sed tools hacks howto gnu unix awk AWK: Linux Administrator's Wisdom Kit Learning Linux? This introduction to the invaluable AWK text-manipulation tool will be invaluable. / unix tutorial tools sed scripting reference programming linux howto awk aw

Preview: Alan Moore's new work, "Lost Girls" From the creator of "V for Vendetta" and "League of Extraordinary Men", Wendy, Alice and Dorothy like you've never seen them before. NSFW illustrations inside. Via Boing Boing / fiction women art comics

Windows Sockets Error Codes / tcp/ip network reference microsoft The Hacker's Handbook From Wikipedia: "The Hacker's Handbook' is a legendary non-fiction book from the 1980s effectively explaining how computer systems of the period were hacked. It contains candid and personal comments from the book's British author, Hugo Cornwall, a pseudon / hardware tech howto tutorial tools security reference network hacks books

LinuxDevCenter.com -- Unfinished Business: The One Missing Piece Work with AD?! Why would anyone need to work with AD? Active Directory is not a standard! It's been embraced and extended! Who needs that? We've got LDAP and NIS and Kerberos and... Well, let's look at where we are in the grand scheme of things and see if / network linux ldap LinuxDevCenter.com -- Getting Started with LDAP We're going to start working with LDAP in a semi-real work environment. Specifically, we're going to set up a basic LDAP directory to store Unix user accounts, along with a script to pull those accounts to a Unix system -- that is one of the things for wh / unix ldap howto linux LinuxDevCenter.com -- Managing Disk Space with LVM The Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a mechanism for virtualizing disks. It can create "virtual" disk partitions out of one or more physical hard drives, allowing you to grow, shrink, or move those partitions from drive to drive as yo...

DSC01820 . Originally uploaded by theofpa . ( NSFW pic here .) Via Sketches of a Village Idiot Savant .

I got Google's invitation to try out Google Spreadsheets last week. I only had time to try it out just now, and frankly, I'm not too hot on using it just yet. The interface is painfully slow, Ajax notwithstanding. There are also some features that I miss, like select-and-drag, for one. Of course, it's a web app -- and besides, it's still in beta (like most other Google offerings) -- but then again, I don't see much use for it. Sharing spreadsheets *might* be cool, but how's that different from just attaching, say, OO.o Calc files to email? I haven't tried out any of its other features yet, but Google Spreadsheets is probably one of those apps that are long on promise and short on delivery. But given Google's propensity for putting out apps and goodies for all the world to play with, and with their capacity to continuously improve and add on new features, I'm quite sure Google Spreadsheets will go far. With their acquisition of Writely , Google may ...

I wish! I was just lounging around, checking out the Pinoy Blogger "A-list", when I came across Marc's article, looking for any Pinoy Googlers (er, is that even the right term?), which in turn pointed to Migs' post . (I know, they're old articles, but hey, it's been a while since I've kept up with reading blogs -- aside from the usual cut-and-paste-and-link posts I did off of my RSS subscriptions.) Anyway: I, too, got a shot at an interview for Google, early this year. It was for an engineering position. It was actually a surprise, getting an email from Google (a recruiter told me they got my resume off the web {searched, of course}, were interested in me, and wanted to arrange for an interview) right at the start of the new year. I was dubious at first, but when I got the call, I got this cold, cold feeling down my spine: OMG, Google! To make the long story short: I didn't make it. Oh well. At least, I got considered -- and I didn't even apply. *...

"Given a number of cities and the costs of traveling from any city to any other city, what is the cheapest round-trip route that visits each city exactly once and then returns to the starting city?" [ Travelling salesman problem , Wikipedia.] Well, don't despair, Mr. Loman, because DNA computing is on the rescue. DNA computing works like this: Release thousands of DNA sequences into a pool, and the simple thermodynamics of hybridization means each strand will end up finding its partner. Thus the dream of DNA computing - massively parallelized by the ability of many, many small pieces to diffuse and hybridize in a solution. Via Madprime.org . Uh, okay. Right... For those of us who like pictures, Discovery magazine offers a beautifully rendered comics:

pisces-iscariot » end make d parflays dance sylvimousse is barkley, so keys me.. "The point is, she’s getting famous, albeit not as planned, but famous still, which I think for most Viva hot babes is good enough." Tsk-tsk, Gab, ang bad mo! Heh. / humor fun video YouTube - 地球46億年の物語 Meteorite Collision　 From the people who brought us Godzilla, hentai and Astroboy, (Heh. Peace! ^_^) comes this stunning depiction of what might happen when a "world killer" hits Earth. Beat that, Hollywood! (Well, if it has Liv Tyler in it, I'm all for it! ;)) Via Kottke.org / video space science astronomy Powers of Ten (kottke.org) The film starts on a picnic blanket in Chicago and zooms out 10x every 10 seconds until the entire universe (more or less) is visible. And then they zoom all the way back down into the nucleus of an atom. A timeless classic. / video space reference movies math Language Log: The history of typographical bleeping Well, I'll be d----d! Vi...

Boing Boing: Inside China's iPod sweat-shops Quote: "The report claims Longhua's workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15-hours a day to make the iconic music player, the report claims." Ouch. / tech Jabber is more than Instant messaging. - Gof's weblog People know less that XMPP (the protocol behind Jabber) is more than just instant messaging. XMPP is a protocol that simply allow you to exchange XML fragments between clients. So possibilities are infinite. / xmpp network im

Taking a dip . Originally uploaded by iandexter . Went parasailing last weekend, on our teambuilding in Grande Island , Subic. Overnight stay at the resort: Php5K++. Parasailing and other water sports: Php5K++. Flying 400 feet in the air: priceless.

Lurid new covers for classic books Slate asked designers' pulpy takes on the classics. For example: "Alice in Wonderland: One girl's drug-induced descent into dreamland debauchery!" / humor graphics fun design books My wife needs to read this: "Carrying off the art of one carry-on" Packing light offers less tangible but very real benefits. It's a chance to pare down and simplify our lives, to discover what is truly essential and what is not. It's a reminder that we're more than the sum of our possessions. / life travel tips howto

Nice. (My VMWare install is on an FC3 box.)

Filmography for Natalie Portman on MSN Movies Luv her! (As Wayne and Garth used to say, "Schwing!") / natalieportman

Just got out of a gruelling panel interview -- part of my new engineer evaluation here at work. Man, those were tough questions they asked. As I think about it, the questions touched on mostly basic stuff: HTTP, SMTP, and all the other Ps. I need to study some more. I do know the basics and can confidently cover most other intermediate to advanced topics. But after that interview, I'm having second thoughts.

Never mind the extra bangs. I'm a bit jittery: it's almost 2 am; I have a presentation tomorrow (no, later tonight); and I'm still wracking my brains over how to make separate MS SQL instances work in one box with ISA Server 2004 on board. Yaiks! Yep, you heard it right: ISA Server. Gawd, give me Squid+{MySQL||Postgres}} anytime. Please.

The whiz kid behind the Million-Dollar Homepage got hit by denial-of-service attacks from script kiddies who demanded $5,000 -- later upped to $50,000 -- so they won't "ddos (his) site ever again". Instead of giving in, his entrepreneurial mind kicked in: he made a deal with a Web security company; his site was up again, and the Feds are now after the kiddies. Now that's what I call ingenuity. Via Boing Boing .

Addition . Originally uploaded by iandexter . Yay!

Ballonmoleküle Modelling balloons are known first of all as a toy or in form of balloon sculptures. But there are other possibilities….. On this web site we would like to show you how to use modelling balloons to build chemical molecules. Basically you only need ballo / visualization design cool science art

(Okay, for lack of a tackier title... Heh.) WeBreakStuff encountered a very interesting error message at Technorati: “The Flying Spaghetti Monster has arrived and we have all been taken to planet Zeus 94 to kneel before Zod. All this is a little much for us to handle at the moment so come back later please. And leave a quarter in the collection tray on your way out.” Hmmm... Typical of Web 2.0, the way Flickr tells you something went wrong ("Flickr is having a massage.")? Makes me wonder if that will ever work here in the Philippines. Given the language, social and cultural context, can services -- online or otherwise -- get away with off-the-cuff, almost flippant feedback messages when users encounter errors? Tech support was one of the aspects of my previous work, and I've never had the chance to issue such remarks (what with the still buggy state of the services we offered) -- our clients would have been turned off, big time. Still, it might have been worth the try.

Yummy! Via information aesthetics .

I shit you not. Look what I got: I *usually* have 15 readers on average (that's according to Feedburner stats -- I'd think significantly less than that, say, three?) Borken chiclet, then? What's the matter, Feedburner ?

My son, the taekwondo jin . Originally uploaded by iandexter . We enrolled him in a local Milo taekwondo class last summer. After about a month of training, his instructors deemed him eligible for promotion tests. His dobuk maybe two sizes too big, but he's got the form and the looks down pat. And a mean out-in kick, too, with a slicing "cha!" to boot. And, oh: he passed the promo test -- he's a yellow-belter now.

IAB Standards and Guidelines - Universal Ad Packages These units are currently being introduced by Web publishers and are designed to enable marketers to utilize greater interactivity as well as expand the creativity in their online messaging. / seo web reference