Category Archives: technology

sf predictions

Posted on Saturday, 2004 May 01 by Anton

Dave Langford heard from Tanaqui Weaver: Slavishly imitating the title gadget of Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music, there’s now an MP3 player (‘AK-MP3’) designed to fit the ammo clip slot of a Kalashnikov. Later: T.Weaver explains, “Ananova’s Quirkies frequently … Continue reading →

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the littlest penguin

Posted on Thursday, 2004 April 29 by Anton

to boldly go where no penguin has gone before (link from Monty Solomon)

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GPL goes to court

Posted on Monday, 2004 April 19 by Anton

netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH “To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, … Continue reading →

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hint: parallelism

Posted on Monday, 2004 April 05 by Anton

Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google’s Power

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little bangs, bigger bangs

Posted on Sunday, 2004 February 22 by Anton

Decided today it was high time I tested my recently repaired .22 handguns; and the Glock came along for the ride. Despite not having shot since May, I still mostly hit what I aim at. But o my poor elbow!

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ahead of his time

Posted on Saturday, 2004 February 21 by Anton

The plot of Hal Clement‘s story “The Mechanic” (1966) is awkward and dated, but it’s still noteworthy as an early exposition of biotechnology quite similar to current concepts.

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partial success

Posted on Sunday, 2004 February 08 by Anton

I thought I had succeeded in setting up a dual-boot machine, but — Booting ‘Windows XP’ rootnoverify(hd0,4) chainloader +1 and it stops there. Hanh? Oh well, better that than the other way around (Windows but no Linux). Much later: Lei … Continue reading →

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