Color Test Results is a summary of the results of surveying a bunch of Internet users aboutwhat colour text on what background they found the easiest to read. Thesummary quote:

As you can see, the most readable color combination is black text onwhite background; overall, there is a stronger preference for anycombination containing black.

Not coincidentally, most of my text is black on white (or black onslightly off-white). I was interested to see that white on blackactually rates fairly highly, because

Normally, one of NFS's irritating features is that when you mount afilesystem from a server, you don't automatically get access to anysub-filesystems mounted on that filesystem; you have to know about themand mount them yourself.

(Yes, yes, some NFS servers offer features to do this for you; suchfeatures have their own problems.)

But there's an old sysadmin trick that turns this into a feature. If youNFS mount a filesystem, such as / , you can

One of the interesting things about programming DWiki is how it'swound up making me notice and appreciate the subtle cleverness of WardCunningham's original simple wiki design, in particular the choice of aflat page namespace. Many of the advantages are relatively technicalbut there are more abstract ones, one of which I stumbled into today:

You do not have to taxonomize information before you put it into aflat wiki; you just have to give it a reasonably good name.

When you have a page hierarchy of some