Category Archives: technology

stuff the vaunted Linux documentation won’t tell you, No.453

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

How to change the time zone? Since I reinstalled Red Hat yesterday, it somehow thinks we’re in +8 (Japan) rather than -8 (California). Apologies to anyone to whom my mail appears 16 hours delayed.

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oops

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 06 by Anton

I had my BIOS set to boot from floppy, HD and CD, in that order, when I wanted CD before HD. No wonder stuff wouldn’t install.

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technician humor

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

Short Attention Span Blogger vectors this list of airline maintenance log notes, allegedly from Qantas. Left inside main tire almost needs replacement Almost replaced left inside main tire. Test flight OK, except autoland very rough Autoland not installed on this … Continue reading →

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nonsense, only Americans shoot people

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Just when you thought I had stopped talking about guns, here are John and Antonio on the recent school shooting in Germany: And guess whose fault it is, according to psychologist Andrés González Bellido in the Vanguardia? You guessed it. … Continue reading →

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annoying website of the day

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Your browser is out-of-date. You’re seeing this message because your browser won’t display my pages properly. Rather than frustrate you with a pile of junk, I’d rather tell you how to update your browser so you can come back and … Continue reading →

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cops and/or robbers

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

This ought to surprise nobody. (Another link from Kopel; search for “April 2”.) I’m pleased that Mr Harper had the good sense to shoot at the robbers even though they claimed to be police. If it happens more often, maybe … Continue reading →

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distributed defense

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Dave Kopel wrote on April 7: The Boston Globe reports that gun sales in Israel are skyrocketing, “particularly since an Israeli shoe salesman used his own weapon to fatally shoot a 46-year-old Palestinian who had opened fire in a Tel … Continue reading →

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