Posts tagged “linux”

Hey!Mar 4, 2005

Sick for two days and feeling worse, not better. Managed to get X working on Debian, which is progress, but compiling wireless drivers is a nightmare.

Oh dear godFeb 28, 2005

Drowning in a high-stakes project that may literally kill me, and spending my remaining energy trying to get Linux running on an ancient 366MHz laptop. Ubuntu and SuSE both crapped out. Geeks, I need distro recommendations for low-spec hardware. Save me.

(Cross-posted to Gay Geeks) A few words on the ongoing SCO versus IBM situation, rapidly...Jun 11, 2003

SCO is picking a fight it can't win by threatening IBM's AIX license. But the real issue is bigger: overzealous copyright and patent claims are strangling innovation. Copyrighting UNIX now is like copyrighting "car" in 1950. The system is broken, and it's killing the internet.

Been busy with -- gasp -- real life recently, so not too many interesting web finds. LindowsOS is...Oct 4, 2002

Been busy with real life lately. LindowsOS looks promising for my free-computer project. X-Men Evolution series 3 is fantastic and I'm still smitten with Nightcrawler. Also found a cool animation showing how US state boundaries changed through history.

Top of the mornin' to ye. I've been browsing Freshmeat a lot recently (word to the clueless: it's...Sep 20, 2002

I found a nifty disk-wiping tool on Freshmeat that boots from a floppy and nukes hard drives, with obvious legitimate uses and some delightfully evil ones. Also, UK exam boards have massively screwed up grades this year, leaving everyone uncertain whether students deserve their university places.

Text-mode Quake 2! Okay, so I don't play Quake and I seldom use text mode, but it's still a cool...Dec 31, 2001

Text-mode Quake 2 exists, and even though I don't play Quake or use text mode, I appreciate the sheer audacity of it. Boredom breeds brilliance.

Way to go with shooting yourself in the foot, Bill! Good news on the I-hate-Windows front at last....Jul 6, 2001

Microsoft's .NET turns out to be an open standard, meaning Linux users can implement it freely. Soon you could run Office on Linux, making Windows expensive and unnecessary. Looks like Bill's antitrust dodge has spectacularly backfired.

I had an interesting lecture this morning by a guy from Intel about the Pentium 4, the Itanium, and...May 25, 2001

Sat in on a great Intel lecture about chip architecture. Now wondering if the Itanium/AMD split could balkanize computing the way Mac vs. Windows did, but with incompatible hardware too. Could be a nightmare for porting, and interesting times for Linux either way.

Thanks again to wondrous Ed for the very amusing stick-man kung fu. Clearly, this guy has too much...May 6, 2001

Ed's stick-man kung fu is hilarious. More seriously, the looming AOL vs. Microsoft war is terrifying because one of them will win, and both are evil. I'm done giving either my money. Time to switch to Linux before I end up a slave to Bill Gates or AOL.