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Cat Meme your Console
- Thursday, January 23 2014 @ 01:26 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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One common way to indoctrinate new members it to make use of their unattended workstation to browse a less than appropriate web site and leave it up on the screen for casual passers-by to notice.
Unfortunately, this browser-based method of team indoctrination does not work well on team members who are always buried in a dozen terminal windows, are running some foul desktop environment without any of the usual hotkey commands, use elinks to browse the web, or they guy who wonders why nobody else is using emacs to read their Microsoft Exchange email.
Solution? An ASCII art cat meme for your console window!

The live site is best viewed from a console shell or terminal with fixed font width (e.g. Using the "curl" command from a terminal):
http://cat.thatlinuxbox.com
p.s. I was hoping to find a nice happy domain name for this ascii art cat meme that was easy to remember. Sadly, cat.me and pretty much every other domain name containing the word "cat" are already taken...
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Ogre - Tabletop Boardgame of Tank Warfare
- Tuesday, December 31 2013 @ 01:47 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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Allen helped to fund this project on Kickstarter and totally scored. Steve Jackson Games wanted to do a re-print of the Ogre boardgame originally created back in 1977. This sixth edition, the Designer's Edition, is a really great example of how to use Kickstarter. The project was seeking $20k to help fund a re-print and in the end received over $920k! You can read all about the Kickstarter campaign here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8...rs-edition
The game includes nicely detailed, high quality cardboard 3d models of the Ogres, which are giant tank war machines:



The basic game can be set up and played in 30 minutes to an hour which makes it suitable for a lunchtime gaming session at work. Here are some pictures from a longer multi-day lunchtime game:
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Interim Linux Team Lead
- Friday, October 04 2013 @ 10:02 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
- Views: 3,393

Our existing team lead is heading off to greener pastures to do cloud stuff and to perform all kinds of SysAdmin wizardry at Rackspace.
Martin Smith, we will miss you!
Six SysAdmins
- Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:38 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
- Views: 2,983


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Standing Workstation v2.0
- Wednesday, January 25 2012 @ 03:03 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
- Views: 5,548

I've been tweaking my desk area and this is where I am today, version 2.0 of my standing workstation:

The upper LCD shelf is made from a cheap melamine shelf with CAPITA legs from IKEA. So far it is working well, and the third LCD monitor is a nice addition.
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