Archive for March, 2005
Saturday, March 26th, 2005
Kmail? Evolution? Thunderbird? No. Mutt.
I’m going back to the console for my mail. Why? Because I’m finally fed up with graphical mail client weirdness. Read on for my reasons (read: ranting)
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
But People Are Still Hungry
So scientists can connect your brain directly to a computer but with all these great thinkers, there are still people on this planet dying because no one can figure out a way to feed them and give them fresh water (and make money at the same time.)
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
Nvu One Step Closer To Release!
One of the coolest projects I’ve been following is Nvu. Nvu is basically an open source dreamweaver/front page/web development IDE. On March 10th, the 4th preview was released! Check out the features here.
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
How long will it take to switch?
I wonder how long it would take me to learn how to type as fast as I do now, with this keyboard. I might just try it one day…
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
AOL Reads Your Messages
Check out this article about AOL’s new terms of service for instant messenger. Bottom line “You waive any right to privacy.” Use Jabber.
Update: “We aren’t reading your IM’s, I swear!”
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
New Nvidia Drivers
The Nvidia crew has released version 7167 of their drivers for use with linux on x86+x86-64. Check out nvnews.net for info. (So far my geforce 6800 works well with vanilla 2.6.11.3 and xorg 6.8.2)
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
New Kernel (Again)
Ok so now there’s a new kernel every few hours or so… as of this moment 2.6.11.3 is the most recent. Enjoy =) ftp.kernel.org