According to this report, a photo of a person’s eyes increased tips in a tip jar up to three times the normal amount. We’ll see how this works out later.

I’ve been fairly pleased with rootkit hunter.  It’s trivial to set up, self-updating, and easy to use.

Fairly often in my career, I’ve started a job as an additional sysadmin, or worse yet, a replacement sysadmin. I rarely have the luxury of setting up a system or a network from scratch. It’s always difficult to determine the security level of a given system, and I rarely [never] have been able to treat production systems as “untrusted” and take them down long enough to do a full audit.

Granted, you should always treat the output from an ‘all in one’ tool like rkhunter with a grain of salt, but it does act well as an additional tool to use when you need it.

Among other things, GNU grep now supports color.

When I first read this, I thought, “Wow, now I can pick out just the black socks! grep –color=30 /dev/room/socks* ”

Oh well.

This review of X3 had an interesting note about one of the best scenes of the movie:

In one scene, the unstoppable Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) bashes through wall after wall, until a naive Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) slows him down by sinking him into the floor. The angry mutant declares, “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!” and then continues on his quest, but the brief line sticks out glaringly in an otherwise vulgarity-free film. “When that line comes up, I’m probably going to start breakdancing, and Randy will scream out the phrase himself,” 21-year-old college student Xavier Nazario said excitedly, thrilled over the prospect of watching Jones utter the line made popular by an Internet spoof Nazario released last February. Using an old “X-Men” cartoon, Nazario and pal Randy Hayes dubbed their voices in, giving birth to the now-famous catchphrase. Hayes, who voiced Juggernaut’s ghetto persona in the top-rated YouTube.com clip, isn’t quite so shocked that Ratner paid tribute to the clip. “Everybody loves the Juggernaut,” he laughed.