Fanfiction Reviews, Interesting Links, and General Geekery
Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
I read this classic article several years ago and then forgot where it was and what it was called. I’ve finally found it again and I think that it’s something everyone should read.
It’s a perfect example of why trusting both the components of your system and the people who provide them is so important.
Just because I think that everybody should see these. (You can also find them on YouTube directly) This is how you do good advertising. (Just like Mythbusters is how you mix education and entertainment)
I found these months ago but, at the time, I wasn’t blogging heavily.
Ever wanted a nice comfy way to tell your system “Disable the screensaver until this window closes”? If so, drop this shell script onto your system and make sure that you’ve got the xwininfo, xdg-screensaver, and awk commands installed.
#!/bin/sh
WID=`xwininfo -int | awk '/Window id/ {print $4}'`
xdg-screensaver suspend "$WID"
When you run the script, it’ll grab the cursor like xkill does. Once you pick a window, the screensaver will be disabled until it closes. You can also create a script to reverse the process by replacing “suspend” with “resume” in the last line.
Wish You Were Here! Postcards From Our Awesome Future
While reading the news page on OpenClipart.org, I ran across these interesting and entertaining images. Definitely worth a look and, if you want to use the bits of art from them in your own work, most of them have been released onto OpenClipart.org. 
deviantART - Super Saiyan no Jutsu
Don’t you just hate how Naruto has become the new Dragonball Z?
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