Category: tech stuff
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I am highly amused.
Myspace flags a musician for copyright violations. For uploading her own music. And, this is why you rarely hear of a police officer actually showing up to defend a contested speeding ticket. It just might be that the ticket itself is a little tiny bit out to lunch. Technology … Read the rest
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Now this is an interesting perspective on technology.
For those of you who have issues with typing on your standard, more traditional keyboards, seems manufacturers are finally starting to listen. There’s a large number of new keyboard designs being tossed about, and some of them seem quite… well, unusual. Of course, I have absolutely no clue how … Read the rest
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Things I learned that manage to surprise me.
In list format, because lazy is me. Microsoft can, in fact, make a program that doesn’t die horribly when you try to add something extra to it. They just don’t do it very often. Clearly, some people’s definition of accessibility is far different from mine. This is why we have … Read the rest
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Why linux is for the epic motherfucking win.
From a thread regarding a speech-friendly installer for another Linux distro: There’s definitely interest. I’d even learn the process for doing that for the sole purpose of contributing. Thanks for looking into it, William. —–Original Message—– From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of William Hubbs Sent: March 14, 2009 10:29 PM… Read the rest
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And now, for a new level of geekery.
As I mentioned a while back, I’ve been toying around with Gentoo linux off and on for a while, and have been considering running it locally for quite some time. Today, well actually last night, out of boredom I decided to burn a CD image of their latest release. … Read the rest
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On a lighter note…
this amused the hell out of me.
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The slow, painful death of a router.
So, as hinted at in my birthday post, the last couple days I’ve been having some rather clunky interwebs related difficulties. Yes, again. The first time I had issues, it ended up being my 2 or 3-month-old modem (which I did end up replacing, by the way), and now … Read the rest
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I have too much time, methinks.
So in between getting things settled up for Christmas, and taking Jess (samari76) out for her birthday, I’ve had a bit of an opportunity to do some technological geeking. I’ve been toying with the idea of installing a local copy of various versions of Linux, mostly for the … Read the rest
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The old job, 4 months later.
They shut down the Ottawa office at the end of June, and now in its latest attempt at saving money, Dell’s asking the employees that are still there if they maybe kinda sorta wouldn’t mind helping themselves to some unpaid time off. Now, uh, I’m just as shakey about … Read the rest
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Testing, and whatnot.
Just checking out a nifty little client I found for the linux console. If this thing works, I won’t need to rely on LJ’s web interface while at the parentals’. Gawd, that’ll be nice. Note: because I know it’s coming. No, I won’t install Semagic on the parents’ computer. It … Read the rest