Excited
Thu, Jul 27th, 2006
I’m more excited about this than I reasonably should be.
Archive for July, 2006
Ubuntu Dapper 32-bit versus 64-bit
Wed, Jul 26th, 2006
One more geek-bit while I’m on a geek roll:
If you read around the web, you can see various prononucements that 64-bit Linux distriubtions aren’t up to snuff. Most authors seem to focus on the idea that the systems aren’t mature enough, or that they’re missing essential components that can make working with them difficult. When […]
More Mac and Linux Crap
Wed, Jul 26th, 2006
A long-time mac user and developer discusses why he ditched Mac for Linux. His biggest gripe? That the Mac user comumnity sucks. Of course, he’s at least partly right on that count, but I never realized how right until I saw the comments over at Dive Into Mark when he discussed his reasons for leaving […]
Getting in Shape (wherein your author describes how he got off his ass)
Mon, Jul 24th, 2006
At various times in my life, I’ve ranged from being mildly overweight to being in amazing shape. Overweight: when I lived in St. Louis, worked for a Fortune 500 company, and drank after work because St. Louis sucks ass and there was nothing else to do. In amazing shape: whenever I decided to go back […]
gone to ubuntu
Sat, Jul 22nd, 2006
Well, it is official: I moved to Ubuntu Linux. Of course, this isn’t my first time using GNU/Linux. I’ve used GNU/Linux extensively since about 1998 or so, either as my desktop environment or on servers around the house. In fact, I wrote my doctoral dissertation in LyX on a cheapo-PC running gentoo, and used that […]
Culture of Life?
Fri, Jul 21st, 2006
When George W. Bush vetoed the stem cell bill, he mentioned having respect for life as his main reason.
The life that he has so much respect for in this instance is really just a clump of cells. But if you take real, concrete human life with what philosophers would call ‘interests,’ Bush suddenly seems to […]
And no coal for you this Christmas either!
Wed, Jul 5th, 2006
Employees at National Semiconductor were given 30-G video iPods to celebrate the company’s best fiscal year ever. Now, after a recent layoff, employees are being asked to return the iPods.
This has to be the stupidest idea ever from a PR and marketing standpoint. Not only do you lay off the employees, but you also demand […]
"It's a series of tubes…”
Mon, Jul 3rd, 2006
Yup, that’s the Internets, according to Senator Ted Stevens who voted against an amendment to a telecom bill that would have provided for some exceedingly basic net neutrality.
Not only is what Stevens says just plain wrong, it is also hard to understand. It reads like poorly translated Babelfish.
I don’t know about you, but I think […]
