[1] PaveFrance.com: “A collaborative blog dedicated to the ridicule of all things French.”
[2] Dave Hyatt on tabbed browsing [3] International Eat an Animal for PETA Day [4] SlickDeals.net. Note to self: check up on this later. Link from BAMF Forums.“What is the difference between a hub and a switch?”
Answer 1, Answer 2
I really find it hard to believe that people actually take Chris Pirillo as a voice on technology. After seeing about 10 minutes of him on a TechTV show while in Murfreesboro last year, I swore off the network forever. Now he’s harping this Lindows Laptop — a device I have mixed feeling about on my most generous day. It looks terribly under-powered, and the lack of a CD-ROM drive is a killer. The price looks decent, though, but Lindows can’t be much (and has a quirky license) — further, for just a couple hundred bucks more, you can get a more fully equiped laptop from a major vendor (Dell, Compaq, etc.).
I dunno, color me a skeptic, but if Pirillo is pimping it, I probably don’t want it anyway.
Segway (remember “IT”?) sales slump, company forecast bleak.[1] But, you can now buy (overpriced) Progressive insurance on the thing.[2] Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha.
DSL customers brace for higher pricesI found an article on DistroWatch entitled Is RPM Doomed? All I can say is that I certainly hope so. At the office I have four servers running RedHat (one 6.1, one 6.2, two 7.0) — all of which are behind on some major security patches because of version conflicts within RPMs. It is too big of a PITA to manage, so I give up.
I’m standardizing on Debian for all of our production machines, a decision I made some months ago after running regan on Debian for just under a year with _no_ issues. apt-get has worked like it _should_. Yes, DEB packaging has flaws (just like all the rest), but none so crippling as to keep me from doing what I need to do, as RPM packages have.
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Read Dave Barry‘s columns, or his answers to questions on slashdot.
Some people are too paranoid. Others are not paranoid enough. From how many more rooftops must I yell: “WHY DO WE CARE WHAT THE FRENCH THINK?” before somebody starts listening? A couple of friends and myself with pointy sticks could take over France in a matter of hours; why should we care what their stupid pacifist gay cheese-eating surrender monkey opinions are on our matters of war and peace? Now the EU is starting to side with them. [link from Rick, the rant is all my own.]Google was an accident? [aso/.]
Delving further, I find J. Bradford Delong‘s site an altogether interesting read. No editorializing from me here, just a link…Tuesday night, the old Union Bank building in downtown Pulaski burned. I got some photos and video of the action. Most didn’t turn out great due to the darkness, but you may find them interesting:
(link removed – 07-June-2003)