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Category Archives: Operating Systems
BusinessWeek ‘Blog’ exposes Laura DiDio’s wonky techniques
This article from BusinessWeek’s new blog-format section is just great. Steve Hamm has attempted to pierce the veil of obfuscation and mis-information surrounding certain analysts reports. For example the Yankee Group published claimes that businesses are just not interested in … Continue reading
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8-bit peoples
Recently I’ve been haunted by the cute, funky bleeps and clanks of 8-bit music. Especially pecan medley by an artist named yuppster, which includes a short but stirring tribute to the seminal eighties hit Take On Me, which is notable … Continue reading
After the PMP-140
I felt a profound sense of relief as the postal teller accepted the parcel containing the iRiver PMP-140, which I had only obtained four days earlier. For the reasons outlined in my previous article, this gadget completely failed to live … Continue reading
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The feeling of elation when your Linux environment is fully supported…
I just recieved my “Linux Technical Resource Kit”, a 3 DVD compliation of pretty much everything Suse, Ximian and Novell have to offer on the Linux platform. It all looks like cool software however I doubt I will ever have … Continue reading
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SCOX Investment Calculator
Roll up, get your SCOX shares; If you believe what the shills say, it’s going to “too the moon!”, however the only way I can imagine this happening is if it first plummets from orbit, smashes into the Earth (leaving … Continue reading
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
… for the sysadmin who would much rather be running Windows NT 4. A month after we all agreed to standardise on Zope as our content management system, One of my clients (for some inexplicable reason), has decided to standardise … Continue reading
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SCOX recive official ‘Roughing Up’ in Michigan court
Litigious Bastards, the SCO Group, recieved a summary slapping from Judge Chabot, in her Michigan court. All counts of SCO Group’s case against Daimler Chrystler Corporation have been dismissed except one; was it appropriate for DC to take more than … Continue reading
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Gentoo is for Ricers
In the world of Linux, there are few issues that arouse more passion than Gentoo (e.g. AdTI, SCO). Depending on who you ask Gentoo is either the best and most elegant, or the stupidest and most time-wasting Linux distribution on … Continue reading
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Long filenames in Netatalk with OSX
This evening I re-encountered a problem I came across a while back. It all happened when I was trying to get some comprehensively-named choons by Liberation Jumpsuit from my Gentoo box onto my Powerbook via Netatalk. Despite having 10 tracks … Continue reading