My last video card died in September 2005, in what I affectionately referred to as the september in computer hell. As you may recall (or find in the middle of that megapost), I picked up a Radeon X1600 Pro back when my 6200 failed out and died. And it was ok, had some compatibility issues, [...]
so, I’m drawing near one of those big life-changing forks in the road. Last one I hit was probably the first one I hit: the end of high school, going to college, picking a major. It’s depressing to think that I’m in a mindset not particularly dissimilar to the one I was in eight years [...]
Ratio-based torrent sites are getting pretty common (I regularly use 4 of them now). So all of this is in the context of bittorrent and ratio-sites. I’m planning on this post being a general examination of the structures and mechanics involved in these sites. The meat is this: since bittorrent is a zero-sum protocol, it’s [...]
Rather than try to shape the random things floating around in my head into coherent, readable whole-posts (and thus spending several hours I don’t really have to spare right now, thanks to wanting to sleep), I’m just going to give them to you in half-finished one-liner form: 1: When you lose weight (by burning fat, [...]
A little after the end of the semester, I was thinking to myself “I need something to fill my time”. So, among other things, I started downloading and watching/listening to Stallman presentations from the FSF website (under the premise “if you have to drink something, it may as well be Kool-Aid”). So I watched like [...]
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