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Don’t Adjust Your Monitors!October 8

Figured we would start the day off light by a cool optical illusion.

Dear UNEASYreaders,

I’m very pround to announce that UNEASYsilence has hit a huge milestone. This post is our 10,001 post and I could not be prouder!

Started in 2004 as a space on Blogger to give a home to the ideas kicking around in my head and to post links that I found interesting. Never would I have imagined that this website would introduce me to so many wonderful people across the US around the world.

We have had our good times as well as slow times but what I always had was my readers. Thousands of unique people daily who want nothing more then to “notice the unnoticed.”

I want to give a huge shout out to all the readers out there. Without your encouragement I would have shut down this site years ago. I also have to thank one of my UNEASYfounders still lurking in the comments and the person responsible for all our designs, Derek, for being there always. You are a permanent member of the UNEASYfamily.

To celebrate I urge all readers to leave a comment to say a simple hello. I’d love to hear from you! Even if you are a first timer don’t be shy! We welcome you and are honored to have you in the fold!

Let’s keep the conversation going for another 10,000 posts!

From Mr. UNEASY himself,
_dan

Is Linux a Viable Platform or A Disruptive Force?October 6

Put on your boxing gloves, this is going to get interesting!

17 years ago yesterday Linux was introduced to the world and during those years Linux has found a devoted and loyal following. It powers most of the web servers world wide and is the geek os of choice.

Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
for you :-)
As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I’m working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage
where it’s even usable (though may not be depending on what you want),
and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is
just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I’ve successfully
run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it.
Sources for this pet project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi
(128.214.6.100) in the directory /pub/OS/Linux. The directory also
contains some README-file and a couple of binaries to work under

Now Thats What I Call a Bookshelf!October 6

Everyone has seen the “invisible” bookshelf, but this shelf takes it to a new level!

The inverted bookshelf turns a bit of your living room upside down as it hangs all of the books from the bottom instead of supporting them from below. It’s a satisfying optical trick and doesn’t damage any of the books. In fact, you can take books in and out of it whenever you want.

Watch out velcro… Here I come!

Two New Ways To Stay In ContactOctober 5

Hey all you UNEASYreaders out there… Just wanted to do a quick little post that there are two new ways to stay in touch with the silence out there.

We removed the CAPTCHA for the time being, to see if the SPAM can be kept at bay. However, if you take something you must give something too. We added a new checkbox to the bottom of the comment form that will allow you to get email updates if somebody posts a followup comment. Kinda cool!

Also if you want to hit me up with a specific question, just drop me a line on Twitter.