Archive for November, 2002
Friday, November 15th, 2002
Yet another reason to be thankful I've been married seventeen years. The dating world has only gotten tougher since my days. The Rejection Hotline, located in 14 US cities, is receiving nearly 50,000 call per month per city.
It started out as a joke last summer after Goldblatt and a ...
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Thursday, November 14th, 2002
Making the email rounds today is this note on quotes attributed to George W. Bush:
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"We're going to have the best ...
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2002
It's a week late, but the install blogcast for Red Hat 8.0 will commence on Saturday afternoon. Swing by here for the details, as they happen.
And back to the real world tomorrow ...
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2002
It's the time I left for Des Moines on Sunday to spend with my Grandpa his final hours. It's the time I'll leave today for chapter two of this painful journey - the visitation. Chapter three will undoubtedly engulf the day tomorrow - the funeral and honored duties as a ...
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Monday, November 11th, 2002
The Red Hat 8.0 install blogcast got sidetracked in a very tough way today. It'll happen sometime this week. I'm just not sure when.
I received an email from my mom this morning, noting that the health of my 84-year-old grandfather, living in a home in Des Moines, had taken a ...
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Sunday, November 10th, 2002
I'm starting the Red Hat 8.0 install this afternoon for review in Penguin Shell. I've done literally hundreds of Red Hat installs, so this will clearly be very familiar territory.
First, a bit about the test box. It's a 1 Ghz AMD Thunderbird, 128 Mb Crucial RAM. The mobo is some ...
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Saturday, November 9th, 2002
I spent two weeks in Japan in December last year. I fell in love with the country and wrote about it here, here, here, and here. When I left the telescope company in January, I thought I'd probably seen the last of Japan.
It looks at least possible that I'll be ...
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Friday, November 8th, 2002
The de-geeking thread continues to grow. Brigham's picked it up and added another 8 to the list. My favorite:
55. You get more security alert emails than porn spam. :)
Yep. With 55 signs, I think we're clearly defining the geek lifestyle.
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Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Australian IT is running a story noting that the 2.6 Linux kernel version will be released in the second quarter of 2003.
There are also some interesting comments in the article from Linus, regarding his past and future interest in being the Linux codekeeper.
"My interest was wide enough in ...
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Thursday, November 7th, 2002
As Linux has continued to increase in popularity, Microsoft has called it a "cancer" and taken every possible opportunity to spread disinformation about the GPL. That makes this news from ZDNet a bit surprising. An internal Microsoft memo distributed to attendees of a strategy meeting in Berlin in September states:
"Messaging ...
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