Category Archives: neep-neep

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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live and learn

QOTD: I’ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies. Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional … Continue reading

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Flash hacks

If you like my mathematical doodles you’ll like BIT-101 ActionScript Laboratory — hundreds of little exercises in Flash, by Keith Peters. (Found on Joshua Schachter’s muxway by Dan O’Neill)

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overlooked aspects of Web infrastructure

One useful 404 notice: The requested URL /~bthomas/vamp/vampecology.htm was not found on this server. bthomas is not a current Leland user. That saves me the trouble of climbing down the directory tree.

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QotD

Jon Callas: Remember, the truly evil thing about Microsoft is that because of them, we think of unix as the good stuff.

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I’m Feeling Unlucky

Google too is afflicted by spam. (Link from Gordon Joly.)

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