Posted in Linux, Technology on February 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A couple of updates about my new laptop:
I managed to get wireless internet working with WPA encryption on my home network (after going through some congif file hacking following this link), but still had to find a way to get it to switch between my home and school network seamlessly – and I found it [...]
Posted in Diary/Miscellany, Linux on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m typing this post on my new laptop. Yee-haw! On Ubuntu! And the wireless internet is working!
Actually it was quite an adventure to get both Vista and Ubuntu working cleanly and playing nice with each other on my new G1. This is going to be long and boring post, but it might serve as a [...]
Posted in Geopolitics, Politics on February 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What if the national flag of countries expressed statistics of that described the nation? An excellent example of art as protest. Prepare to be awed by the artists vision.
read more | digg story
Posted in Diary/Miscellany, Linux on February 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday evening, I finally purchased a laptop online, and, contrary to what I had implied in a previous post, it is not a MacBook. It’s an Asus G1, which is a nifty 15-inch preconfigured Linux-ready (at least that’s what the Ubuntu forums claim) laptop with the best specs I have seen for the price. It’s [...]
Posted in Diary/Miscellany on February 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You scored as Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer). You forget things. Are they important? You think you might be a Cylon, but does that make you a machine? Who are you? Who am I?
Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer)
69%
Dr Gaius Baltar
56%
President Laura Roslin
44%
CPO Galen Tyrol
44%
Col. Saul Tigh
38%
Number 6
38%
Lt. Kara Thrace (Starbuck)
31%
Tom Zarek
31%
Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo)
19%
Commander [...]
Posted in Diary/Miscellany, Technology on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Plenty interesting that happened this past weekend…
I went to an anti-super bowl party on Sunday – we went over to my office mate’s house and watched several episodes of ‘The Might Boosh’, which is a remarkably literate, highbrow, and thought provoking British documentary series about zoos. Here’s an example on YouTube.
I went out shopping for [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff, Tech Industry, Technology on February 5, 2007 | 16 Comments »
From digg: Charlie Brooker in The guardian discusses why he hates Macs. Choice quotes:
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous [...]
Posted in IP issues, Internet, Music on February 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From digg: An old but excellent piece in Salon written by Courtney Love (!) about how record companies have exploited recording artists finacially and wrested control of coyrights from them, and how new technology is slowly eroding their very reason for existing (i.e., no more scarcity).
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