The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

Band rehearsal last night was great. The CD release party on September 7 at IOTA in Arlington looks like it’s going to be a good show. It looks like we have a surprise musical guest as an opening act. We are also working on shows at Jammin’ Java and some …

More song work done… a solo guitar part (well, the best that a lamer like me can manage) and a bass pad to add some depth. Hopefully it’s a pretty good guide for when we do the real recording soon.

All right, so I got my song down to hard disk this weekend. It is extremely down and dirty, as I didn’t have much time, or any assistance, to do the work. For acoustic guitar, given my “less than optimal” studio setting, I used my Line 6 Variax, the 1959 …

Students from the RCFG symposium: I am working on getting those presentations up at the URL I provided during the sessions. They will be in PDF format, but I am specifically trying to get a hold of appropriate material to license these under either the GNU FDL, the Creative Commons …

This article discusses personal information and hidden text that can turn up in a variety of word processor formats, most notably Microsoft Word. I’ve been aware of this “feature” for a number of years and don’t use Word for publishing anything these days. Instead, I use either OpenOffice converted to …

I understand that in a few weeks, Buena Vista (the arm of Disney that does their media marketing) will be introducing the new EZ-D discs, which are simply DVD’s whose material is made to evaporate about 48 hours after you open the package. So you buy what you think is …

To all those poor, benighted souls suffering from the latest Micro$oft worm: Are you tired of Micro$oft’s lazy programming attitudes and disregard for your security? Are you sick of dealing with expensive anti-virus solutions that only work some of the time? Isn’t it time you did something about it?

My vote for best DVD package so far this year is the new Black Hawk Down 3-disc Deluxe Edition. Endlessly fascinating, with three commentary tracks, a huge documentary that is actually longer than the film itself (even if it is a bit repetitive), and genuine documentary specials regarding the real …

To wit, the GNU General Public License, as applicable to the Linux kernel distributed by SCO as of today: 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. …

You’ll find a brand new, shiny button to the left, which clearly states my feelings toward SCO, formerly a player in the UNIX world, now simply a playa hata. Lest anyone think this is simply a gut reaction, I would advise you to dig through the internet for various pieces …