Got a new Hitachi 250 GB drive for my T60 this week, and I installed it today before I left the office. Nice to see that it took about 10 minutes to install the distro, about 15 minutes more to get all my other packages and updates reinstalled, and a …
Geek stuff: A while back I posted about a problem with Nautilus’ handling of audio CD copies. In today’s news, that looks to be fixed in the upcoming GNOME release, which should by all rights make it easily into Fedora 8. More geek stuff: Today also saw the arrival of …
Last night I did a test with my iPod using a TRRS-to-3RCA cable (lifted from my Sony miniDV camcorder), and found that I could very handily do a slide presentation by patching into the composite video input on a projector or monitor. With audio inputs, I could have backing music …
It seems that all I’m doing these days is chasing the tail end of whatever I was supposed to get done the week before. Most of my busy time has come from my musical life. Leah has a final show coming up in a few weeks, and inexplicably we have …
I’ve developed an innate distrust of the phrase “left as an exercise for the reader” when used in technical documentation. This idiom is normally indicative of at least one of the following situations: The author is too lazy to cover the majority of use cases, and besides, there’s a Buffy …
From a recent LUG meeting: One member described “wife” as “the best definition ever of a non-maskable interrupt.” UPDATE: I hadn’t seen my Mugshot stacker, where Marvelous Mike had posted something today on gender issues, proving once again that he is always ahead of my game.
We gave my daughter a small radio/CD player for her sixth birthday a while back, so she’s been excited to get copies of some of our CDs that she can play in her room. Yes, we still get the majority of our music the old-fashioned way, by buying CDs. So …
A couple days ago Mike McGrath posted a blurb about a question of morality posed on “This American Life,” a regular National Public Radio show. This question actually comes from an episode of RadioLab, a fascinating science show that comes to NPR courtesy of WNYC. You can listen to the …
Nicu’s post on the artwork proposals shows what a great group of contributors is involved in that project. Mairin’s interest in the concept of infinity are fascinating, and I’m eager to see how she develops this idea. I also really like Mola’s Moon theme, although I’d like to see it …
There’s been a stifling mini-heat wave here in the mid-Atlantic states, with temperatures yesterday and today up around 100 F, with heat indexes closer to 110 F due to the humidity (or, as I like to refer to it, “soupy crotchness”). By the way, thanks Florida! Now I can thank …