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I’m starting to adopt Unicode/UTF-8 into my world to allow for more internationalization in my projects. Someday I might play with Perl6’s UTF-8 stuff too. I also want to be able have different charactersets render correctly while using Mutt. I often get email from people in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and SouthEast [...]

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
For today’s installment we go over getting some basic libraries up to shape. If your Linux distro is old enough, you can’t use 3rd party binaries like Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread), Firefox, and Flash because the [...]

I’m coining a new term here : chown3d (or ch0wn3d depending on how l33t you are).   
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access. 
This is the case for a lot of people working Corporate jobs as engineers, including me.   I realized chr00ted is a more appropriate [...]