Links for February 12th, 2011

The Tech Field Day Wikipedia entry! Heck yeah! If you’re a vendor working with Tech Field Day populate your own page, would you?

My 2011 resolutions include actually getting certified on VMware software. Saw this via @jasonboche, saving for post-VCP4 work. 🙂

The ultimate dead path report — this looks cool. Blog post is in French, let Chrome translate for you.

“One minute you are enjoying a bowl of cereal, and the next you are fighting off attackers with this deadly and disguised weapon.” Some of this stuff is great.

Old school internet humor. I had to look this up so that one of our recent hires knows what my coworkers and I are talking about when we say things like “Terrible, F”

Scary but cool. I think I like the “do you like simple or complex people?” the most.

“The biggest reason is jobs. There really are zero creationist jobs. The biotech industry is an important part of our economy and Louisiana students can’t afford to be shut out of it. Even if we’re not going into the biotech industry, the law still hurts us. Any science company is going to have trouble trusting a Louisiana student’s education because our state has an anti science reputation based on this law. No college wants to accept students who think creationism is science whether it is a college like Harvard or a state school like LSU (Kevin Carmen’s testimony at BESE is evidence of this), and it is making it harder for Louisiana students to be successful.”

Press the easy button for this one. I had a couple of plugins installed for years that I finally could get rid of.

My first multiuser computing experience was on a VAX back in 1993. Interesting times were had, especially when I ran some code that exposed a bug in VMS and got labeled as a hacker, even though all I’d done was FTP a copy of zmodem to the VAX in ASCII mode. Somewhere, there’s a security advisory for VMS because of my idiocy.

“Slurp: What Kittens’ Tongues Teach Us About Derivatives” LOL