http://h0lug.blogsome.com HøChiMinh Linux User Group Home-Orifice Thu, 03 May 2007 14:09:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m so, so sick of people i don’t even know asking me for “li xi” (lucky money). A freaking garbage guy just put on a baleful look and begged for li-xi. He hadn’t even finished turning away after i’d turned him down and his usual jaded smirk spread ... http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2007/02/21/p29/ “erotica, sex ed, interviews and more with sex educator, Fleshbot Assistant Editor and bestselling sex author Violet Blue” [tinynibbles.com]. OSS episode 27 is #69 of 69 on odeo and “rather than tell you how to tie a knot or write a slave contact,” this ep, Violet flogs “BDSM for the ... http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/02/10/digg-submit-item/ I ripped a couple lists of Vietnamese blogs, one from NoodlePie.com, the other from GlobalVoices Wiki, then splice them together and extended them a bit (via vim). The result is here (vietnamese blogs), where it can be updated as needs be. http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/31/blogs-of-vietnam/ The Arctic Monkeys sold 120,000 copies of their first album, making it the fastest selling album in Britain thanks to their Internet saavy. They promoted sites illegally playing their music and gave out demo copies which quickly fanned out across the Net. Take that RIAA. read more | digg story http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/band-sells-120000-copies-of-album-via-online-distro/ A blogger put Digg to the test, a test which caused more than 11,000 Diggers to visit the blog within 3 hours, made its web server tremble, and which made the blogger wisely question the so-called “future of journalism and media”. read more | digg story http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/girl-undresses-in-3d-the-digg-experiment/ IBM DB2 database released as a “light” open-source version, Express-C, along with free community training and support. Limited to 2 processor cores but no database size limit, it will run on Linux or Windows and include venom from DB2’s upcoming relational native-XML release, Viper. read more | digg story http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/ibm-db2-express-c-open-sourced-viper-bits-coming/ Malaysia confirmed it will mount an expedition hunting 3m-tall furry black jungle giants known locally as Hantu Jarang Gigi, meaning “ghosts with widely-spaced teeth”. So El Reg says the BBC said. From MuseumOfHoaxes.Com read more | digg story http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/malaysians-seek-jungle-big-foot/ Dugg up at digg.com: Error + Game = 404 Fun read more | digg story http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/amuse-yourself-with-a-missing-webpage/ A century before Photoshop, they managed to falsify pictures, with some brilliant concepts. read more | digg story http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/picture-hoaxes/ some of the best Flash-work i’ve seen so far; certainly the best tunez i’ve ever heard from Flash to date. that’s a screen cap from my SuSE 9.3 box http://h0lug.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/get-flashed-by-iconique-flash-2/