Category Archives: technology

what’s new in the penguin pen

I got a big new disc for my Linux box, and copied over my home files from the corrupt old disc, apparently without problems. I also upgraded from Red Hat 7.1 to RH 9 – and adjusting is a bitch!

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creaking computers

Argh. My Linux box’s HD has somehow gone too corrupt to boot (or reinstall). I guess I need to find data-recovery service. Meanwhile I’m using my old Mac – too old for MacOS X, and therefore too old for Mozilla. … Continue reading

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prior restraint

By now you’ve probably heard that Photoshop refuses to process images of US currency. I wonder whether we’ll see movies cheekily alluding to such censorship by masking out (perhaps with a glowing effect) any currency that appears in shot.

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remarkable publicity!

Today the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal set forth without comment the principles of “gun-toter” Jeffrey Jordan’s group Liberty Round Table. (Cited by Russell.)

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“an architecture of the commons”

Charlie Stross has some remarks on open-source hardware.

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fifty failures

According to the BBC, More than 50 other gun control bills have come before [Brazil’s] Congress over the years and failed to be passed. In other words, they were defeated. You don’t suppose the Beeb has some ulterior motive in … Continue reading

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Kitty Hawk Day

Russell Whitaker (Survival Arts) reports: Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ pioneering flight. On the same day that a hobb[yi]st at Kill Devil Hills was trying unsuccessfully to replicate that flight, the real news of the day … Continue reading

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