Tagged with 'links'
Configuring a Windows server
I quite enjoyed reading Brent Ashley’s description of his travails when trying to set up a Windows server
When I finally get through a marathon session of setting up a Windows server “just so” to make my application work, it’s like I have created a finely balanced stack of Jenga blocks from which I back away slowly on tiptoe, praying it doesn’t tumble. I’ve get very little confidence that fixing anything will be an excercise in logic and deduction more than having to know some obscure incantation or uninstalling components wholesale and reinstalling and reconfiguring them.
We're going bananas over here!
Somewhat literally:
Thousands of bananas have been washed up on two Dutch islands in the North Sea after several containers fell off a cargo ship in a storm, officials say…
Peter Sagal on 'More'
This is an excellent essay by "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" host Peter Sagal on some disturbing trends in the evolving "American dream":
The American dream…
Signs of the Times
The NYT has a great article on typography for American roadways. Basically, signs are hard to read because, well:
The letter shapes of Highway Gothic weren't…
Nerdcore in the NYT
The New York Times has a spiffy article on Nerdcore Hip-Hop:
It could have been any other hip-hop show, but little details seemed off, like the songs that sampled the epically…
Thinking Outside the Sphere
Greg Costikyan has a few proposals on global climate change:
Screw this penny-ante stuff. The likelihood of our being able to dramatically reduce carbon emissions in the…