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Kees Cook: zombie meme

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Tollef posted a fun (and short) Zombie mem:
You are in a mall when zombies attack. You have:

One weapon
One song blasting on the speakers
One famous person to fight along side you.

I can’t resist.

BFG9000: ranged…

Kees Cook: zooming in Xine

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I use Xine to watch DVDs. In the past I’ve encountered “full screen” (4:3) DVDs that carried a wide-screen (16:9) image. This means there were black bars on the top and bottom of the video frame. When watching…

Kees Cook: another gnome easter egg

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While I had tried the Alt-F2 “gegls from outer space” easter egg, I’d never done the “free the fish” one. It was fun, but while looking around for how to disable it (”killall gnome-panel” — there is no…

Kees Cook: Linux Plumbers Conference 2008

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The Call for Speakers (and registration) for the Linux Plumbers Conference is open! Get those proposals in, register, and come join us in sunny Portland, OR.

The Linux Plumbers Conference was created to bring…

Kees Cook: bold fonts in libvte (gnome-terminal, terminator)

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A while back I complained about terminal fonts. In the end, I was shown that the real source of my pain was a 7 year old gnome bug where vte did not attempt to use bold fonts and always used double-strike instead. …