- 2nd
- Rsync about → One of the problems with being alive in the 21st century is that you quickly accumulate vast quantities of personal data which need backing up. Some villains keep their inboxes clean by deleting mail once it’s read, and are satisfied with only having family photos dating back to their last hard drive crash. I, however, [...]
- 6th
- KDE 4eva → Drag and drop copying straight from FTP into Digikam: this is why KDE, Konqueror and ioslaves rock so hard.
- Animal rights and animal responsibilities →
- 15th
- The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs, aged 13¾ → Fake Steve Jobs claims a good friend of mine got beaten off by the BBC due to him being “a freetard”. We already knew aunty was a whore, and the practise of twisting names into insults (Republican → Repugnican, Democrat → Demoncrat) dates back to the second oldest profession*, but the practice of bashing the [...]
- Silverstone and Donington → I went to Harrogate last weekend to see an ex-uni friend and her fiancée who work in an animal testing bunker. No shit. But on the way we stopped off at both Silverstone and Donington. It wasn’t a race day so the stands were deserted like some kind of post-carpocalyptic movie, but there were interesting looking [...]
- 18th
- Mario Galaxy → Here’s a preview of Mario Galaxy, which looks like the only game I’m interested in getting for my Wii. Since February, it’s been a dedicated Wii Sports box, with occasional usage as a photo and YouTube viewer. But I’m now reminded of how much I enjoyed playing Mario 64 (in emulation anyway; not being able [...]
- 24th
- Misinformation, onionism from Microsoft → Microsoft’s new anti-Linux site seems to be written by refugees from The Onion:
- Google Sky → Google Sky is not as browsable as plain old Earth unless you’re familiar with the night sky already. I tried zooming into Sheliak, also known as Beta Lyrae, and didn’t find much extra info on this famous “contact binary” star. At least it didn’t crash hard like the previous state-of-the-art Beta Lyrae viewer: Related: An incredible disassembly, [...]
- 25th
- Cosma’s Notebooks → Cosma’s Notebooks are a treasure trove; an infovore’s reading log. I quote from the FAQ: ... 2.2 Where do you find the time to read so much? I don't watch TV, I have no social life, and I read about a page a minute, if there isn't any math to slow [...]
- 28th
- Installing Windows Vista → I helped someone set up their brand spanking new Acer laptop a while ago. The hardware was fine, as hardware usually is, but the software was diabolical. Also as software usually is. It took about an hour and a half from first boot to interacting with the machine. Some of that time was Windows Vista doing [...]
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The Hutter Prize: compress Wikipedia for fun and €50,000.
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