Posted in Linux, QOTMFD, babbling, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, internet, media, ramblings, usenet, tagged liberation, computers, usenet, nntp, freedom, taxpayers, corporate welfare, war-on-terror, neocons, newsgroups on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Usenet has been, and continues to be, a great source of information, where technologies that push product can easily be pushed aside using filters. There are more than 10,000 newsgroups on nearly every topic that delienates our human existence, all hierarchically arranged. The major hierarchies are known as “The Big 8″: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, [...]
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Posted in Linux, Miscellaneous, babbling, computers, design, fashion, geekdom, geeks, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, tagged Aphorisms, articles, Creative Writing, Family, Fortune Cookies, Funny, humour, Jokes, Life, One liners, Phrases, Proverbs, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quote of the Day, Random, random thoughts, Rants on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
There is a certain set of color values somewhere in the visible spectrum that do not seem to have a category. These colors seem to go with nothing in your house, and do not seem to come from anything in nature.
The commonest of the ugly colors appear to be (by their RGB values — it [...]
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Posted in Linux, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, software, windows, tagged computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, Linux, Microsoft, software, windows on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I learned (or should I say, re-learned, since I did this before several times but today forgot how I did it) about another thing Windows does. It insists on formatting my partition on a new portable hard drive I purchased to NT without offering me any other option. I removed the drive from the [...]
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At long last, CUPS has detected my printer, but alas, I still can’t send print jobs to it. The fact that it is wireless might have something to do with it; but the odd thing is that I can telnet to it and print a test page. So, I think the problem must be software-related.
I [...]
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