Author: Eric Mesa

  • Weird

    In case you might have been wondering why the posts have been lacking a bit of substance, it’s because I’ve been in England for the past month. I’ve been very busy (it was a business trip) and also did a lot of exploring for pictures. I learned around the time I was in middle school…

  • Fedora Core 5: Bordeaux is out!

    Fedora Core 5 is out. I’ll probably download and install it on my main computer over the next few days.

  • Stop disrespecting soldiers!

    I saw something today that disgusted me. It’s relatively old news, but it’s the first time I’d actually seen the story on tv. It seems there are some Christians who have made it a point to undermine Christianity at all costs. What makes it even worse is that these guys are a bunch of Baptists,…

  • Shameless Promotion

    Some of my favorite photos:

  • Hateful Things

    I have come to see the most annoying thing in my known universe to be having to urinate as soon as I get out of the shower. It’s like dropping your clothes in the mud on the way back from the laundromat. This, for me, is second only to people chatting on their cell phones…

  • Happy St Patrick’s Day

    Wear green!

  • Xen – a more enlightened look

    I first read about Xen while still at Cornell. I think it may have been my Junior year. I don’t have the magazines with me at the moment, so I can’t verify. When I finished reading about the new technology in Linux Format Magazine, I racked my brain, but couldn’t find a reason to run…

  • Happy Pi Day!

    It’s March 14 or 3/14 or 3.14 so happy Pi Day 3.14159….

  • Hitch Hiker’s Guide Quotes

    The Hitch Hiker’s Guice to the Galaxy had such wonderful and amazing quotes in it that I was horribly dissapointed when the movie didn’t share more of these quotes. Here are two of my favorites, with more to follow. The intro to the first book, which set the tone and got me very happy about…

  • Computer Compatibility finally arriving!

    In the olden days of computers, they were as good at communicating as the people on earth after the Tower of Babel incident. Not only did none of the scant networking protocols interact well, but the floppy disks were sometimes completely different sizes. That is, when there were disks; there were some systems based on…

  • Interestingness

    flickr has a top-secret formula, on par with Google’s PageRank, that ranks how interesting your pictures are. Since the top 500 appear each day on flickr.com/Explore, they don’t want people to know the secret or they may game the system. Here are my top 10 most “interesting” pictures in suspense (reverse) order. See if you…

  • FOSS Tidbits

    F-Spot is looking really good and sporting a much better looking website. They now support RAW files as well as XMP data. Perhaps some of their programmers can share this with the GIMP people – hint hint! Fluxbox, one of my favorite window managers, and the one I’m using now, won a 2005 linuxquestions.org Choice…

  • God’s Debris

    God’s Debris, by Scott Adams, is a total mind-blow. It is, indeed, one of the most provacative philosophy books I have read in a long time. As Adams says himself, the book is not a reflection of his opinions or necessarily of anything more than nonsense. He just took the simplest answer for the philosophical…

  • The Port Scandal

    I wanted to get an idea of what the Brits thought of this whole scandal with the US allowing their ports to be run by a company owned by the country United Arab Emirates. I found a British article with an interesting side to the story. As you know, the ports used to be run…

  • Royal Mess?

    England is, well, England Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales United Kingdom is England, Scotland, Wales, and South Ireland. The British Isles are England, Scotland, wales, South Ireland, North Ireland, and some other little islands.