Monthly Archives: August 2007

China bans Reincarnation

An excerpt from an MSNBC article about China and another crazy law: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly

Taking a Break

I’ll be taking a blog-break due to workload at work… Back soon! In the mean time listen to some decent music. Ssssh! It’s Secret!

IBM loves Solaris

Jonathan Schwartz the SUN CTO detailed on his blog about the new deal between Sun and IBM that allows IBM to offer Solaris x86 as a supported OS on their hardware. What does this mean for sysadmins around the world? More Solaris. That’s OK in my books. The less windows servers the better. Someone should

Mac OS X – C compiler cannot create executables

A friend was trying to compile cvsgraph on his Mac (10.4.10 intel) the other day and was receiving the error   configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables By chance he also tried installing a Fink package by source that day as well, and received the same error. We checked out the GCC version gcc -v