Unix

Link: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1019609&cid=25651551

OK, you did something dumb. You weren't really paying attention and ran cat on a binary file. Something somewhere in the miles of garbled output caused your screen to go flaky. Everything you type looks like it came out of the Matrix, you can't even tell what you are typing anymore. hmmmmm what to do? oh what to do? Just type reset.

I was glad to learn this one because usually I just closed the terminal and re-opened a new one. I always meant to look into that, but always somehow forgot until the next time I did it. Now I know, and you do too.

Link: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=25667315&sid=1019609

Here's an old trick carried over to SSH from the olden days of rsh.

You've got an ssh session open, and for some reason your terminal isn't responding to you anymore. Maybe you've rebooted the host and it didn't kick you out first or any number of other things. It doesn't matter. You need your terminal back.

Simply hit <enter> ~ . and you're back in business. A lot of documents describe using <enter> <enter> <enter> ~ . but that's just to make sure your session is really not responding before forcing the disconnect. Good practice, but not required.

Link: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/faq/faq5.html

OK, not really but a diff was accepted albeit only to the FAQ page. Neat.

Link: http://www.openbsd.org/44.html

W00t! OpenBSD 4.4 has come out swinging.

The theme is; in typical OpenBSD fashion; a mix of congruent themes where every detail is significant. This theme is Star Wars battling the 'Evil Empire' (surprisingly AT&T not Microsoft) for control of the code. The song goes into the history of BSD's battle to get it's code base back and released under an open license.

For a detailed history of Unix go here and click the super enormous pdf.

Detailed list of changes in OpenBSD 4.4:

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Link: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/10/beta-release-031549.html

Somehow it was missed that Google Chrome updated to beta 3. Still no *official* Linux version though. *sigh* Reminds me of the days when Netscape was still in beta; 0.90 was my first version of that browser. (Am I really that old now?)

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/10/beta-release-031549.html

FTFA:
Google Chrome version 0.3.154.9 has been released. You will automatically get updated in the next few days. You can open About Google Chrome (from the wrench menu) to get the update at any time.