In the spirit of helping out the open source community, I upgraded most of my machines to Ubuntu Hardy Heron, in order to help with the beta test effort. It’s mostly all good so far, except for a few firefox3 annoyances. middlemouse.contentLoadURL is set to false, but you have to turn that on in older [...]
A well-written editorial in the CSM today entitled
This is why I wear a giant yellow big bird suit when I ride my bike.
Pull latest 2.6.25-rcN git tree to refresh my physical PCI slot patches, hack-hack-hack, go to test them on my test machine, and ruh roh, something’s hanging. Try a clean tree without any of my patches and still get the hang. Hmm… Not sure when this bug crept in, but for some stupid reason, I decide [...]
So I’m reading Val Henson’s blog entry about paying $14.95 for ffm on osx, and I feel the urge to make a witty insightful comment (as if I could make any other type of comment even if I tried). Val disabled anonymous commenting — fair ’nuff. Hrm, I don’t want to create a LiveJournal account [...]
I am white because white people like to travel. If a white person shows up in your country, you can make them feel fantastic by saying how you’ve never seen a white person before, and that you are amazed by their iPod – “a device that plays many songs? impossible!”
Woo hoo, I’ve hit the big time! PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects Ok, this is small potatoes in the scheme of things, but you gotta start somewhere, right? And if you have a lwn.net subscription, you can read about this week’s kernel development news. If you don’t have a subscription, you can wait until [...]
“today is a 5 day” “mmm… i’m lovin’ it” “woo hoo! first lift!” “there’s no point to first lift on packed groomer days” “maybe fat skis aren’t the best choice for packed groomers” “it. is. cold.” “still, not a bad way to start a work day.”
Very interesting article in the Atlantic titled Marry Him! (The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough). The thesis occurs early on in the story: ask any soul-baring 40-year-old single heterosexual woman what she most longs for in life, and she probably won’t tell you it’s a better career or a smaller waistline or a [...]