Joe Auricchio

Got a Nalgene? Like coffee or tea? A French Press for your Nalgene

yes, this is a repost from project.ioni.st

<joe> Rebates don’t make sense to me.
<joe> If you want my UPC label, why did you ship it all the way to me, just to make me mail it back? Silly retailers!
<saturn> Better yet, why don’t they just say “You screwed up no money for you!”

checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ln... /bin/ln
checking whether '/bin/ln' works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether 'ln -s' really works or whether I'm deluding myself... it works

Rainforests are being razed to grow soy for biodiesel (and every food product that has soy in it, which these days is pretty much everything).

Oops.

Original source: 37Signals weblog

A menu item in MS Visual Studio: Help on Help.

Didn’t that raise any red flags? Did nobody consider that if the program is so complicated that you can’t use its help system without a tutorial, maybe they should rethink things a little?

But, hey, this is Microsoft. Nobody ever said they knew how to write software.

./configure
  (many lines)
checking for gtk-config... /opt/local/bin/gtk-config
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... yes
checking for xmms-config... /opt/local/bin/xmms-config
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for XMMS - version >= 1.2.0... yes
checking for white_boys in -lFunkyMusic.so... no
    Warning: You may not have enough white boys to play your funky music.
    Please obtain additional funky white boys.