MoveOn's "email tax" meme considered harmful. (2006/04/25)
One sees, occasionally, reproductions of a heartfelt, probably sincere, dire warning about the coming Email Tax, in which AOL will soon destroy all good and innocent people by forcing them to pay email. It’s censorship, of course, because it’s backed by secret cabals of Republicans wearing special tinfoil hats which let them know when to falsely report the mail as spam.
[read more...]AMD processor goes belly-up zeroing memory (2006/03/07)
My friend Dan found this: [read more...]
I love Linux, but I hate it. (2006/02/01)
This’ll sound strange coming from someone making a living using and writing about Linux, but it’s damn hard to take it seriously sometimes.
[read more...]StarOffice 8 on NetBSD (2005/10/11)
Yes, you can run Linux StarOffice 8 on NetBSD-current. (Tested only using the SuSE 9.1 emulation stuff.) These instructions are from memory.
[read more...]Dice again: Are they just trying to be stupid? (2005/10/11)
Followup to this previous entry:
[read more...]Why I will not apply for a job through Dice.com. (2005/10/08)
I saw this on Slashdot:
Soyo issues "rebate"... Or do they? (2005/10/08)
This is a followup to an earlier article, about my Soyo rebate lawsuit.
[read more...]A printer worth -$150.00 (2005/10/02)
I have a sudden need for a faster computer. One of the winners in the AoI benchmarks was a surprisingly cheap eMachines system. Its successor is available at Best Buy.
[read more...]Better compression, and MORE OF IT! (2005/09/25)
Well, this is a followup to Compressing the bible from yesterday.
[read more...]Compressing the Bible (2005/09/24)
This might be sort of a religious topic in some ways, but really it’s pure geek stuff.
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