Archive for June, 2003
Monday, June 23rd, 2003
Ahem. Tech Curmudgeon, here, with a word of advice.
Everyone seems to be catching the RSS feed fever. I know I build it into my sites and use my feed reader religiously. Everybody loves those little chunks of news that move so easily across the 'Net.
But a feed that includes the ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2003
So ... I've started to get over my little Red Hat tiff of a few months ago. When Red Hat decided to limit their update services, I got a bit pissed. I decided then that I was going to move my machines to Debian. I did that with two of ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2003
I spent the first few hours of darkness last night doing something I've never done - looking through the eyepiece of a tall homemade Dobsonian telescope at globular clusters, planetary nebulae and other amazements of the heavens.
I do build telescopes for a living. The telescopes we build are, at least ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2003
One of the best personal entries I've read in awhile. Having spent much of my life chasing the rock 'n' roll dream down one path or another, this one really hit home.
Thanks to Sean for the link.
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
Both The Register and the New York Times are reporting that Linus will leave Transmeta on July 1 to focus full-time on the Linux kernel. He'll be working for the non-profit Open Source Development Lab. Though he's apparently beeen given free reign at Transmeta to continue kernel development, moving back ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2003
I'm not sure how to take this. Out of the blue, my / directory is filling with folders. These folders are named after web sites (www.kxan.com, www.csmonitor.com, etc). They also appear to contain nearly the full contents of each site. I thought it was possible that my feed reader had ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2003
It's too bad the trains in Japan, about which I've written much in the past few weeks, can also be used in this way. I believe this happened along part of the line I took between Kurashiki and Kansai just a few days before.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2003
I'll admit it. I used to read Winer on a regular basis. Before I read the blogs of others who carry on conversations rather than snipe, I even thought Dave had a real answer or two. No more.
When Blogger and MT reinvented RSS, and had the audacity to call it ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2003
This is what happens when bloggers take themselves too seriously.
Funny thing - the author seemed to predict the reaction of the bloggers pretty accurately. That's good satire.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2003
John Dean, of Watergate fame, makes several compelling points about the apparent absence of WMD in Iraq. Given his role in history, the arguments Dean makes are especially credible. He raises the obvious questions about the credibility of the President in his statements regarding WMD:
Perhaps most troubling, the President has ...
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