latest bulletin from the voices

Posted on Monday, 2004 February 09 by Anton

Little MIS Manager
sat on a tanager

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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 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.

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what’s in the jar?

Posted on Sunday, 2004 February 08 by Anton

Pickled dragon mystery (from SciTech Daily)

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the illusion of information

Posted on Sunday, 2004 February 08 by Anton

Orkut puts me on the spot: of my first five Friends, I know two only slightly, but I can’t avoid rating them all on scales of Sexy, Cool and Trustworthy. This strikes me as a design flaw.

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the effects team got a new toy

Posted on Saturday, 2004 February 07 by Anton

Continuing to catch up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I noticed in season 3 several morphing shots (transformation between vampire and human face) much smoother than I’ve seen before. Such changes, I think, never happened in close-up in previous seasons.

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e.i.a.a.

Posted on Saturday, 2004 February 07 by Anton

Russell has seen fit to write about me on Orkut:

Anton is one of the most thoughtful, careful thinkers I know. One of the things I appreciate about him is the enormous depth of his knowledge.

Who me?! I have to keep reminding myself that my standards for “careful thought” and “deep knowledge” are higher than average.

I’m a little bit surprised that Russell didn’t add: “And he shoots straight.”

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what’s new in the penguin pen

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 February 04 by Anton

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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