Problems With Facebook Privacy

I recently read an article telling folks to chill out with there concerns on Facebook privacy issues.  It, as many others have, addresses the issues of people’s purchases and interests being mined for advertising.  The commenst response I see to those concerns is here.  In the article, TechCrunch does a decent job of telling everyone that their concerns in that fashion are utterly baseless.  There hasn’t been purchase...

Vernacular

There are three words with which I don’t think a very clear vernacular exists.  These are the words “Nerd”, “Geek”, and “Dork”.  I have thought long and hard about these and have developed my own set of definitions that I would like to integrate into the common understanding of the U.S. English language. Lets first state that all of these terms define people that have something in common....

Linux DU and DF Result Differences

This is something I’ve run into a few times. I’ll pull up a `df -h` command and see something where the root directory (or /var or /usr) or something is filled up completely, and I try to locate where the space is with a `du -xh --max-depth=1 /directory_that_is_full` and the result shows me something completely different than the `df -hl`. What I’ve found, this is something to do with a conflict of a process trying...