Are Truly Closed Communities Anti Blogging ?

Dave just pointed to a second argument against CSS by a Live Journal user.  Now here's what I find interesting -- I wanted to add my .02 and I can't.   Now I have no problem if a blog author wants to approve who can add comments before they are allowed (well some problems but not as much).  My problem is that I can't add a comment unless I am a Live Journal user.  That just plain bothers me.  Thoughts ?

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Perhaps the Best Picture Ever Found on a Blog

High praise I know but just look.  And smile.  Its well worth it.

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Jeremy on Feedster

Wow.  Thanks for the nice comments man:

9. What do you think blogging will be like in the next 2-5 years?

Blogging will have become mainstream. AOL and Yahoo will have blogging integrated (to some degree or another) in their services. Search engines may very well deal with blogs differently than they do now. Scott's Feedster is a preview of what's to come. More

And his 10 Questions on Blogging piece this is a part of is excellent.

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Administering a 3 Year Old Linux Box or "What's the $#*($#* Root Password Then?"

There are times when Linux / Unix is, without question, really, really complex.  And then there are other times where its just plain easy as pie.  The old box I resurrected for my new Linux development box is a 2 or 3 year old Compaq Deskpro.  Nothing wrong with it -- and for running *nix, it doesn't have to be utterly state of the art.  And it already has RedHat installed (7).  Still when I went to do stuff on it, I found "I don't know the Root password".  So I iterated over every known password variant I've used in the past three years -- nothing.  Grep thru my hard disc looking for Root or Password.  Nada (well lots of results -- no results that worked).  Finally I go to google and find this via this query.  And here's all I had to do:

• Go into text mode on boot p (ctrl+x I believe)
• Type linux single or linux 1 which got me into Single User mode
• Backup the file /etc/shadow
• Edit /etc/shadow and delete everything from between the : characters that indicated an encrypted password (its pretty easy to notice; really)
• Save
• Type su
• Type passwd and set a new password

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Using Cerials.net Doesn't Mean You're Not Legal

I got an interesting IM yesterday after I logged off that pointed out "You might not want to mention that you used Cerials publicly in your blog".  True.  It might not be the wisest post that I've ever made -- but I didn't do anything wrong.  I'm a legal owner of the product in question -- I have over 200+ Microsoft CDs from literally years of being an MSDN subscriber.  Still even though I'm fully legal, going to cerials.net was:

• Easier than digging thru 200 odd CDs to find the MSDN serial # paper
• More cat friendly -- my cat Virgil sleeps on top of the trunk where all my MSDN **crap** ("important paperwork") is stored and yesterday he got both a new towel in his basket and a wonderfully warm, bright sunbeam.  I didn't have the heart to move him.

So no crime was committed and the happiness of an ornery cat was preserved.

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