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ReactOS Revisited Part 1
I decided to revisit ReactOS to see what had changed from 2.x that I reviewd before to the 2.9 release candidate. So I fired up VMWare and ran it. I was a bit dissapointed in the performance. I know it was VMWared and only had 128 MB, but Ubuntu was running beautifully VMWared with only…
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Presenting…..xmessage!
As I was reading the latest Linux Format Magazine, they had a great tip for a low tech way to remind yourself of different time-sensitive events. The best part is that it works under any window manager! (ie it doesn’t matter if you’re in Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, or any other) The trick is to…
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My Beautiful Wife
Sometimes my wife is allows me to use her as a model in my photography. Here are some recent shots as she tried various techniques with eye makeup. I just love black and white portrait photography!
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flickr goes gamma and adds new features!
This whole time, flickr has been technically beta software. Well, as they went gamma, they have decided to add a great new feature based on mashups that people were already doing using Google Maps API – they are providing a map of the world where users can drag their pictures to the spot it was…
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Birds
One of my favorite shots!
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Use Minix….create a free OS?
As we all know, Linus Torvalds created Linux out of his frustration with the lack of features in Minix, a teaching OS meant to duplicate a POSIX-compliant Unix system. Well, as a great followup to Saturday’s Post, why not check out Minux yourself? A new group has begun developing Minix3, in the hopes of getting…
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Arachnaphobic?
This little guy stayed alive and stayed still long enough for me to photograph him. Then Danielle squished the life out of him. Hopefully he doesn’t go Agrajag on her. (Hitchhiker’s reference)
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Bollywood Fight Club!
Want to crack up? Want to see the movie sure to be so cheesy it MUST be watched, then check out Fight Club: Members Only. A Bollywood remake of the Ed Norton and Brad Pitt movie.
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Late Happy 15th Birthday Linux!
I’m a day late, but happy birthday Linux! Here’s the email that started it all! From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out…
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Bottom 10
Photos Ranked #190-200 in the flickr Top 200 Rankings So there they are….all just a few views from 100.
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Mayor Ray Nagin should not be allowed to speak
The man who was in trouble last year for saying, “New Orleans, at the end of the day, will be a chocolate city….” is now in trouble for remarks he made last night on CBS’ 60 Minutes. The reporter asked him why, after a year, New Orleans was a mess. He replied, “Look, you guys…
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Experimenting with Physics
Man it feels good to be an engineer!
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The Vast Gap [in views] between #1 and #200 [of 1304]
#1 – 1026 Views #200 – 96 Views .
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A fun quick customization
tired of a terminal session that looks like user@computer> pretty boring right? So just a little command called PS1=”message” can liven things up. The man page intro suggests: PS1=”What’s next, master?”