Wget can be really annoying... how can you completely suppress all possible output when running wget as a cron job.

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If you run CiviMail to check for outgoing mail every 10 minutres and you have many sites on a server, you can quickly fill your home directory with thousands of empty files creating a file descriptor problem if ignored for long enough. :)

See also the drupal module 'poormanscron' to take care of othe Drupal side of things. You will still need a 'real' CiviMail cronjob as it does not have poormanscron hooks.

Excerpt from Internet.com. Please see the Recommended Links on the left for the whole article.

About the Author: Bruce Perens is the creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of Open Source and the criterion for Open Source software licensing. Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the request of the United Nations Development Program.

From Yahootech:

The U.S. government could save billions of dollars by moving to more open-source software, cloud computing and virtualization, a recent study suggests.

Jun 5th 2008

From The Economist print edition - online
Consumer devices: Revealing the underlying technical details of electronic gadgets can have many benefits, for both users and manufacturers

Illustration by Fraser Hudson

“It’s a new day for consumer electronics,” says Chumby’s Mr Tomlin. “The community makes suggestions and shares hacks. And we don’t try to sue our innovators. We make heroes of them.”

The terminology isn't that important, neither is the fact that Scrum principles are perfectly suited to any project or discipline... What is important is that team stakeholders are well defined and required to take responsibility for the project outcome. The only purpose of any organization is to achieve results.

So, I've been thinking a bit lately on technology's role in learning, or eLearning, if you will. My goal as CTO is to become the invisible man. Tech should serve users, not the other way around.

Mail messages that appear to come from you or someone in your organization...A likely possibility is that you have been joe-jobbed... more or yet more

Check the originating mailserver in the message headers... if it's not yours, you did not send it. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about it. For most - unlike the gentleman at the first link above - being joe-jobbed is annoying, but essentially harmless.

So, here's some annoying things about iTunes.

Here are some of the core drupal features. There's a complete listing of all available modules at drupal.org/modules. For a complete description of drupal features please go to drupal.org/features