Comments (0) Linux Today – The Inquirer: IBM Officially Kills OS/2, Suggests Switch to Linux
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God, I thought this thing died years ago! Had no idea they were still supporting it…
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This site is devoted to french covers of various mystery writers including several Nero Wolfe books that were translated into french. The series was abandoned in 1950 after 19 Nero Wolfes had been published.
Well worth a browse!
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Personal note here. Just installed it to try to get gimp installed on this mac. Been fighting fink and apt-get all day. So wanted to be able to remember where to look to find the link to the docs… never mind. nothing to see here. just move along folks…
Boing Boing: Plan 9 From Outer Space available on Internet Archive
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This is cool!
Boing Boing: Vintage radio PCs
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and yet another way to destroy old vintage radios… That hurts!
But it might be a lucrative business too!
Boing Boing: Decrypt this book, says Chinese code-novelist
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The above is the whole of his novel. About two young lovers that do something. Horizontal mambo or something is what it looks like from that last section. First part looks like they aren’t real sure of their sexual orientation. Then they get eyebrows or something.
Don’t think this kind of thing is gonna catch on. And he claims it took a year to write.
Here is a free copy of my book Build your own yurt, written in 1998, It has been used by a great many people who have built their own yurts. Our designs have progressed somewhat since 1998. For a much more comprehensive guide see The Complete Yurt Handbook
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Some good info here. For those yurt minded amongst us… 😉
Slashdot | Doctorow and Stross Release Latest Novels for Free
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And their sales keep climbing. Free advertising is hard to beat. Shows once again that there are positive aspects to giving things away.
The Huffington Post | Latest News
Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.
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Read on a bit for the conflict of interest part. This is the kind of thing that we have to eliminate. Don’t know how or if it’s even possible but somehow if we are to survive as a people instead of as producer/consumers in a corporate work force.
The early verges of this are on us now as auto makers put employees parking further away that drive other brand cars. Coke firing employees for drinking Pepsi. Walmart touting how much it does for the communities it infests while it instructs its employees to apply for food stamps and federal aid. Tis old news and not new news but it illustrates how our society as a whole is going.
Trademarks everywhere. I’m not immune. I’m typing this on an Apple iBook that I tried to talk myself out of getting. But I got it from a small business. They pissed me off and I may never go back there again but that’s another story.
Ramble, ramble. It all ties together in my head and probably nowhere else.
FreeOpenSourceSoftware Rulz! Think global, buy local.
Report Discredits F.B.I. Claims of Abuse at Guantánamo Bay – New York Times
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I kinda equate using the military to report on it’s on actions to putting the known egg sucking dog in charge of protecting the chicken coop…
Take that however you want, Albert E. and handlers…
But I keep forgetting. He don’t read the news. He lets others tell him what to think…
Edward Whelan on Supreme Court on National Review Online
Interesting commentary.
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