Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.

vfat Mounts Default to Lowercase Shortnames
I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.

VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.

Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
How to use dialog to display a script progress bar and communicate progress to it through a named pipe.

Mount JFFS2 Image
Example of how to mount a JFFS2 image using mtdblock.

Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.

Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.

Fremont Street