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SMART hard disk monitoring, emerged smartmontools, and set smartd to run in the background. (Via Slashdot)

The Vigenère Cipher, I knew this from my cryptography class so it’s just refreshing my memory. (Via blogwalking to Mr. GBT)

Next time, put more breadcrumbs for the stuffing. (Via cooking roast turkey)

X.org X11 transparency and shadowing is still not stable, e.g. glxgears caused X to crash even with AllowGLXWithComposite enabled. (Via Gentoo Wiki)

AUD 1 = IDR 7,500++, and rising. (Via Yahoo! Finance)

There’s a Japanese pr0n model/actor named Anna Ohura, not to be confused with Anne Ahira. (Via a dream I had the other night. As if I’d tell you.)

A soda can and chocolate can be used to make fire. (Via Boing Boing)

The notorious TBE managed to screw up my Firefox, again, after an upgrade. I had to make a backup of my Firefox profile, delete the extensions directory and reinstall all of my Firefox extensions. It was strange that after I reinstall TBE it was working fine again. So I stuck with it, for now… but one of these days…

I finally know what Podcasting is about. I’ve heard about it for so long but I couldn’t be bothered to look it up in Wikipedia or Google until this morning. (Via blogwalking to Priyadi)

There’s a Wiki clone written in Ruby called Instiki that seems to be recommended by some people. Not in portage yet, so I haven’t bothered trying. (Via Nat)