Cleverfoo

Rafael Ferreira's blog

Category: General

Simple secrecy

How to protect your files on a *nix system

So this is what intelligent pragmatism looks like…

After the last 8 years of partisan ideological extremism one can almost lose sensibility to such zany behavior.

Vista as an instrument of meditation…

I’m typing this as I wait for my dad’s brand new Sony VAIO to run Vista’s “checking your hardware” utility; it has been doing this for about 8 minutes now. Before this lovely state, I had to wait while it ran “windows gets ready to run for the first time” for about 20 minutes. wait.. [...]

Sitting at opposite ends of the spectrum

For some odd reason I came across this video today, it brings together Mr. Dawkins and Pastor Ted. I’m not quite sure why professor Dawkins would even consider something like this but it is hella funny. Even if you are a big Pastor Ted fan, this video should still serve to show you the crumbling [...]

Async delegates in… bash!

This may not surprise some of you but, believe it or not, you can write very simple asynchronous delegates in plain old bash. Yeah that’s right, BASH. Here’s the scenario, let’s say you have to perform a task that might take a long time (let’s pretend you need to check the health of an nfs [...]