My wife and I were having a discussion this morning about the difference between Yams and Sweet Potatoes. The bottom line: usually anything you get in the U.S. is a sweet potato, even if they call it a Yam. Check this out if you want a real scientific breakdown.
I’ve been trying to figure this out for a long time – how to get more than one bookmarks toolbar in Firefox. This change allows the toolbar to grow to more than one row, which is just as good: Expanding the Bookmarks Toolbar
Here’s the deal. Hula is starting to depend on mono, but when you try to install mono-complete, you may get a dependency error on libsqlite.so.0. I could not find an RPM that provides libsqlite.so.0 – only libsqlite3.so.0. In order to get the mono RPMs to install cleanly, I ended up building my own RPM for sqlite-3.2.7, which creates a symlink fro libsqlite.so.0 to libsqlite3.so.0, and has the appropriate “Provides” in the RPM. If you want it, it’s here.
Someone recently dredged up this article on How to Manage Geeks, which I had never even seen before. The author is none other than ex-Novell CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt.