Blackmoor Vituperative

I updated WordPress to 2.3.1 today. In the process, a plugin I use stopped working. So I fixed it. If you would like to us it, you may download it from here:

Categorical Links Page plugin

You will need 7-zip to decompress the file.

I was browsing Amazon earlier, looking for books to recommend to a friend who may be interested in getting into Linux. I thought other people might find this handy, too, so here they are. It is a very short list. There are literally dozens of other books on specific subjects that I would also recommend (the O’Reilly Apache book, a few Perl books, and so on), but this is a start. These are more or less in order of increasing complexity.

• Learning the UNIX Operating System
• Unix in a Nutshell
• Learning the vi Editor
• Essential System Administration
• UNIX System Administration Handbook

Little did we know that Darth Vader is a a blues man.

Free Press and Public Knowledge filed a complaint with the FCC about Comcast’s squeezing of BitTorrent and other apps the cable company deemed to be too much of a strain on its network.

Comcast, you may recall, was playing a little game whereby it delayed outbound traffic by impersonating users and sending reset commands.

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The groups want Comcast to pay $195,000 per affected user.

(from Comcast throttling deserves punishment, groups say, ZDNet)

I agree with these groups in principle, but $195,000 seems a little steep. Refunding the cost of my high-speed Internet service during the affected period seems a fairer punishment.