Archive for December, 2002
Tuesday, December 17th, 2002
CNN reports that the Trent Lott story happened because of blogging.
If Lott didn't see the storm coming, it was in part because it was so slow in building. The papers did not make note of his comments until days after he had made them. But the stillness was broken by ...
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Monday, December 16th, 2002
Just when you think this blogosphere can't be any more connected, along comes yet another way to highlight, comment on and critique each others' words.
Ben Trott has written a piece of code for More Like This From Others in response to a challenge from Ben Hammersley. David Raynes then ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
Mandrake's moving into the post-install configuration, less than 20 minutes after starting the package install. Not bad.
Adding users, including the root user is the next step. Easy enough. This looks alot like the user configuration in Red Hat though, of course, in the Mandrake motif. Mandrake also provides iconic representations ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
Package group selection is easy in Mandrake. The options for a workstation are Office Workstation, Game Station, Multimedia Station, Internet Station, Network Computer (client), Configuration, Scientific Workstation, and Console Tools. Each of these options also has a rollover summary description - a nice touch. There's a full set of server ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
The lava lamp's fired up. The mp3 are playing randomly. And I've switched from espresso to Mello Yello. All's ready for the Mandrake 9.0 install.
First things first. Mandrake ProSuite 9.0 includes a DVD install disc. Since I swapped all the parts a few weeks ago from one machine to the ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
Mandrake's on the menu this afternoon. I've got a piping hot box of Mandrake Linux ProSuite 9.0 sitting on my desk, awaiting an install and blogcast. This is, of course, another OTB (Out of the Box) distro, and one that's well-known for a silky smooth install process. Mandrake lifted heavily ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
Doc points to a speech by Courtney Love that I hadn't seen. Like her or not, she's clearly got a grasp of the numbers of the music business. They put a different spin on the earlier piece on the RIAA and the music industry, in general. The second page of ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
The Register is reporting that the Secret Service was used once again in a rather odd way. This time, it was to support a bust in New York of a CD copying operation.
The other curious aspect of yesterday's release is the use of Secret Service agents in the bust. ...
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Sunday, December 15th, 2002
I'm living in a wireless cloud at home. My 2.4 Ghz Linksys access point and WCF11 CF card make the Zaurus the ideal wireless tool at home. I'll have a laptop one of these days, but for right now, I'm well set for untethered access. There's actually very little a ...
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Saturday, December 14th, 2002
Here's an intesting use of Linux clustering. Saudi Aramco is building a 4,000 unit Linux cluster to look for oil. According to the article on Vnunet:
The company is using 900 rack-mounted dual Intel Pentium III 1.4GHz processors, each with 2GB of memory, running Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Intel Solution Services helped ...
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