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 brighten my day.”
to boldly go where no penguin has gone before (link from Monty Solomon)
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, partner of the Berlin and Munich based law firm JBB Rechtsanwaelte that represented the netfilter/iptables project in the litigation.
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!
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.
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 at GigaBox told me that Red Hat’s partitioner wrecks the boot block that Windows needs; I should try again, using the Windows setup to partition the disk.