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My Top 10 Most Interesting Pictures
Flickr has a secret algorithm for producing a list of the most interesting pictures. So here are what Flickr thinks are my 10 most interesting pictures. Do you agree?
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Eric the distro reviewer?
I’ve been reading so much about all these Linux distros and I’ve been curious what they’re all about. In particular, Mandriva’s been calling to me a lot because I think that, had Ubuntu not been around, I probably would have installed it on my laptop. I’ve certainly had a bit of interest in the distro.…
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gNewSense 2.0 (deltah) Review
So gNewSense 2.0 came out a few days ago as the gNewSense crew is tracking Ubuntu LTS releases. Of course, the bad part is that there is no upgrade path from gNewSense 1.0 to 2.0. Ubuntu recommends upgrading by going from release to release so upgrading is not feasible (or is too hard for the…
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A Quickie
Back when I reviewed an earlier version of Flock, one of my complaints was that it was impossible to watch Youtube because the video was always stuttering. Well, the Flock programmers have fixed that bug and it’s now definitely usable to watch Youtube videos. I’ll admit that I only watch, perhaps, 1 a month, but…
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The Kind of Restraining Order I’d Get
Thanks, as usual, to Monroe of xkcd:
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The Continual Dumbing Down of American Politics
Yes, the race for the White House has hit new lows, even for this race. It appears that we haven’t learned from the past two races and it’s starting to scare me. Both in 2000 and 2004 one of the biggest reasons stated for George W Bush winning was that both Al Gore and John…
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Feliz Cinco De Mayo!
Which is not Mexican Independence Day.
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Upgrading to Mythdora 5.0
Written Friday, 2 May 2008 Today I decided to upgrade my Mythdora to the latest verison, 5.0. I downloaded the CD media and booted into the install. I had to do a text install to be able to watch it on my TV. Then I just needed to yum install the kmod-nvidia drivers. (Although, first…
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Age of Empires III
Ever since I first started playing computer games in elementary school there have been three categories of games that I’ve loved: puzzle games (eg Lemmings, Tetris, Puzzle Bobble), simulation games (eg Sim City), and real-time strategy games and the related turn-based strategy games (eg Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Civilization). I play other types of games…
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Microsoft Walks Away from Hostile Takeover of Yahoo!
If this story is accurate, then Micro$oft has withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo! This is great news because I love the guys at Yahoo and the programs they run, such as Flickr and delicious and I love the fact that they use FreeBSD for their servers. You can bet that Microsoft wouldn’t have been…
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Getting Totem’s MythTV plugin to work
One of the new features of Gnome 2.22 is the fact that Totem now has a plugin to access your MythTV programs. I installed the plugin and found myself wondering what to do next. I checked on Google for totem mythtv and didn’t find anything until today when Google finally got around to indexing a…
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Happy Slope Day!
To all the heathens on the hill back at Cornell! Hope the weather’s nice and the entertainment is fun.
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Quotes
It’s time once again to empty out my AIM quotes into my blog. Enjoy: ?”You’re, like, my concierge to the Internet Underworld” – T to Chris at work “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Unless you throw a dictionary at me.” – Colbert 8 April Colbert Report “They’re…
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Absolute First Impression of Ubuntu 8.04
Last weekend, it had been a few days since the latest Ubuntu hit the net and I hadn’t heard of any major upgrade SNAFUs so I decided to upgrade. I wanted to record my absolute first impressions without doing much, just to see how I felt. The upgrade went by without anything bad happening. My…