A New Hero of Mine
Friday, November 30th, 2007Dave Shields, ladies and gentlemen:
Simply put, free and open-source software is just the scientific model applied to programming: free sharing of work open collaboration; open publication; peer review; recognition of the best work, with priority given to the first to do a meaningful new piece of work; and so forth. As a programmer, it is [...]
All Those Wonderful Toys!
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007You may have noticed from the sidebar widget that I’m replaying the LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga on the Wii. I’ve been suffering from a nasty head cold and it makes paying attention to Bioshock difficult. My new Xbox 360 (seriously, getting that as an early 40th gift from my wife, mother-in-law and aunt-in-law [...]
OLPC Presentation
Friday, June 22nd, 2007This is an hour long presentation…
Deer vs. Chameleon, Package Maintenance
Friday, June 15th, 2007Some time ago I promised a comparison between openSUSE and Kubuntu’s package maintenance systems. Although you’ve no doubt heard nightmarish stories about compiling software for Linux systems, both of these distributions take advantage of systems that allow you to download and install pre-compiled software from enormous online repositories. openSUSE uses the Redhat Package Manager (rpm) [...]
Deer vs. Chameleon, the Pre-fight Show
Friday, May 11th, 2007I went to a bon voyage get together Thursday evening and stayed up a bit later than usual, which made my 4:00 AM wake up call considerably less fun than usual.
So, unable to thoroughly focus on writing, or coding, or studying, or gaming, I did what any geek does when he’s got some down time… [...]
That Was a Disaster
Thursday, April 5th, 2007I shouldn’t have posted at all yesterday and left everyone wondering at my absence.
From incorrectly stating that it was Tuesday to terrible examples of cut ‘n’ paste posting and a mediocre meme with a bad joke to top it off.
Well we all have our off days, but I’m going to ask Ms. Z to take [...]
Tech Refresh
Friday, March 30th, 2007As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been having issues with my laptop. So, a new system is on the way to replace the Hewlett Packard provided pile of poo. I didn’t go crazy as my budget doesn’t allow it, but I didn’t exactly skimp either. Here are the new specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+(2.8GHz)
1GB DDR2 (8GB Max)
320GB [...]
Spazo Letters
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Not since Don Novello’s Lazlo Letters have I laughed so soundly at such obvious and utter incompetence. This talk back, titled You are kidding aren’t you ?, on ZD Net is so finely tuned and impeccably paced that I cannot believe it is anything other than performance art/parody. The Onion needs to hire this writer:
Are [...]
Grow With Your User
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Go read this article about Linux desktops (link). I know, I know, the last thing you want to do it read about the KDE vs. Gnome battle when you probably aren’t even fully aware why there is one.
But when you read that article (link), and I really must insist you read it, come up with [...]