Just in case you need to know how to figure out what day of the week it is using only bash scripting (including some awk) click here.

Apparently Windows users have something Linux users don’t. But there’s a fix, so it no longer matters:

It is done. Almost. As predicted here on this blog but denied by many, it is probably true that with Windows 8, new hardware will be required by Microsoft to refuse to run Linux unless you mess with it a lot. This will make the act of simply installing Linux on that hardware hard enough that a lot of potential newbies will not bother. Also, it may make dual booting difficult (I’m just guessing at that).

Mint 13 is out.

Anybody know how to make a G5 boot to an install CD? A way that works?

A recent discussion on Browser Wars at GLB led me to wonder what X Blog readers were doing. This, by the way, is an interesting way to get at the question: Are people who read the X Blog the same people who read Greg Laden’s Blog?

Anyway, here’s the X Blog numbers for the last several days:

Only seven percent of you are using Linux. Where have I gone wrong!?!?!??

Dare I ask how many of you even know what a .emacs file is?