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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If this story is accurate, then Micro$oft has withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo!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…
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Mario Kart Wii
I’m writing this Sunday, but I am trying to limit my blog posts to one a day so that there can be something for my readers each and every day. I couldn’t wait for Mario Kart Wii to come out. The Mario Kart series has been my favorite on the Nintendo and Mario Kart Double…
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Joost, the end of Cable TV?
Joost recently (within the last couple of weeks) came out of Invitation-only beta. It’s a program developed by the same people who brought you Kazaa and Skype. Like those programs it also harnesses the power of peer to peer (P2P) technology. (Another reason for advocating net neutrality!) Joost is meant to replace cable TV and…
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Having all distros release at once?
The Open Source Advocate has an article discussing the merits of all the distros releasing on the same schedule. His main argument, bolstered by quotes from Shuttleworth is that by having them all release at the same time, they will end up with the same software and cause a massive synchronization across all major open…
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Another example of DRM being hurtful
The Free Software Foundation’s Defective by Design is reporting that MSN Music is shutting down, leaving anyone who bought music legally left with music they can no longer listen to. This will have two outcomes and neither of which is what the music labels really want. Some people will decide they got left holding the…