Archive for the 'technobabble' Category

formalism in software freedom

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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 [...]

firefox, ie, truths, jackasses, pumpkins, blood, claws, frustrations, exams, and being a jerk

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Ugh. Craziness. Where to begin. Guess I’ll just go in topic-order. One big nasty blob of random goo to puke out all over the place. Guess I’ll keep the front page clean by hiding it all behind a “more” link though .

updates …

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

A conundrum … So gotwoot is a pretty interesting site, from an administrative standpoint. I’m finding it really hard to keep things up to date, partly because of the level of access to information I’ve got, and partly because of the way the site’s set up. Now, my work systems, I’ve got all the information [...]

random irc conversation

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

This was entertaining, so I decided I’d format it up and post it. Unfortunately, then I went to sleep, and forgot about it for 4 or 5 months, maybe more. Some context: I was living in linux at home, after getting pissed off at powerdvd and vlc being uniformly unable to handle playing a dvd [...]

Holy Shit! Headcrash!

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Yeah, so that last post? You know, the one about how I really didn’t need another drive dying on me right now? Apparently the drive either wasn’t listening, or overheard and decided to shit and die out of spite. My guess is the former, because despite the “SMART” acronym, I don’t really think the drive’s [...]