Some may recall that I recently installed SuSE 8.2 on my laptop. I finally decided that I had wireless networking so screwed up on there that I would have to do a fresh install of SuSE 8.2 to get it working. But before doing that, I’ve been wanting to try the latest official Debian […]
Hello! I’ve just let a lot of people know that I am running this little online journal, so besides the stuff you find on the front page here, which will give you some idea of what to expect if you ever come back, I thought I’d offer a sampling of entries you might like to […]
If, unlinke me, you manage to do something other than read technology news, then you might not know that Digital Rights Management software (and even hardware) is being rapidly crammed down your throat. Besides being insulted by not being informed about this or given a choice, why should you care? David Weinberger (of JOHO […]
I just learned there will be a total lunar eclipse tonight! Scroll down on that linked page to see the chart that shows what time it starts in your area. In Pacific Time, the partial eclipse begins at 7:03 pm, and total eclipse begins at 8:14 pm. Total eclipse is over by 9:07 and […]
While Americans celebrate our victory in Iraq with flags, bumper stickers, and dramatic aircraft carrier landings by our President, perhaps it would be useful to stop for a second and look at the results of this war. I mean actually look. With our eyes. The American Media has decided that your eyes are too […]
The University of Wisconsin will not sign a new campus or enterprise agreement with Microsoft to replace the one that expires on July 31, 2003. None of the options presented by Microsoft were acceptable, as UW’s only options were to give up license ownership by entering into an open-ended lease or to continue license […]
The Washington Post has an article about teams of college students who program Sony AIBO Robotic Dogs to play soccer against each other in teams of four. While Beckham’s job is not yet jeapordized, the cool thing from an AI perspective is that “once the humans flip the switch, the robots are on their […]
I’ve been using SuSE 8.0 on my Sony PCG-F370 laptop (dual boot with Win98SE) and on my ancient cobbled together desktop for over a year now. I skipped the upgrade to 8.1 because everything was working and I didn’t hear any rave reviews of 8.1. On the contrary, many upgraders to 8.1 seemed to end […]
The BBC is reporting that New Hampshire’s most famous landmark, the Old Man of the Mountain, is gone. See this article for before and after photos. This is the mountainside formation that is featured on the New Hampshire state quarter. Apparently over the weekend it fell due to natural causes. From the report, “The image […]
You should read the full-text of Ashleigh Banfield’s Landon Lecture at Kansas State University given last Thursday. Apparently NBC has chastised her over this, but if you focus on that aspect of the story you will miss what’s really interesting here. I first noticed Banfield on MSNBC after September 11, 2001. I thought she was […]