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By Dave, July 18, 2005 4:03 pm

Fundamental Discovery About the Fracture of Human Bone: It’s All in the ‘Glue’

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Another piece of the puzzle. Cool!

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 3:29 pm

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Knoppix has it covered

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Interesting article that illustrates in much greater detail what I was trying to say earlier about linux being ready. Now. Also goes into the new installers and more.

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 3:24 pm

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) service-your-own-powerbook-fix-the-display

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Oh-Boy! Another article titled something like: We show folks how easy it is to fix their own laptop. Real title – We show folks how easy it is so they can go and turn their own expensive laptop that needs somewhat minor repair into a smoking pile of toxic waste…

I know it looks easy – But please take it to someone who does this for a living. First. Before you take it apart and put the screws back in the wrong place. At the very least…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:26 pm

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) Colo. “You Could Take Out Their Holy Sites”…

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That there old boy has got a BAD case of Hoof in Mouth…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:14 pm

Making Moonshine Whiskey < < John Barleycorn Must Die<< Old State House Museum

Neat site! Lots of good old fashion how to info too… 😉

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:12 pm

The Register Citizen – News – 07/18/2005 – Need for lightning protection ‘sparks’ a business

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I’m glad that they gave the phone number cause now I know who NOT to call with information on lighting…

One or two little things could be typos. The rest I HOPE is due to a stupid reporter…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:05 pm

Boing Boing: Sexy toolbelt

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Now that’s my kind of tool belt! 😉

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 11:48 am

City finds big savings in Linux

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Glad to see this. Wish more cities would wise up to not only the savings but the stability and openness. The drm restrictions on windoze products is getting worse and with LongTimeHorny coming it’s time to either make the switch or be locked in and quit bitching cause you done it to yo self…

And yes linux is ready for the desktop. And the apps are easy to install at least on some distros. PC Linux OS is one of the best I have found. It’s easy to try as it comes as a Live CD. Just pop it in the cd drive and reboot. Very easy to get used to with minor readjustment. Open office and Firefox take care of most of the general users needs and software install and update is in one application and most times you’re a click away from any app that is designed for that system. For those that need a windoze app there is Wine. Again a click install and quick configure and (most times) install the windoze app and then just click to run it.

Yes there are differences. But the time to switch and get others to switch is now. If we as techs continue to support companies that support drm and the windoze conspiracy we are letting big biz/gov win.

Make the switch now, you and your clients have nothing to loose but your:
BSODs
VIRII
Spam Generating Zombies
etc…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 11:12 am

alphaDictionary * Yankee Test

This is strange. I just took it and my score was:

84% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

YMMV 😉

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 10:07 am

Techdirt:WinZip About To Get More Annoying

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So use another product. FreeZip is what I use when I am forced to be on a windows machine. And on other platforms other utilities are available and some if not most are free so not a problem.

My take here is that the bean counters are gonna kill yet another product. Sooner or later they (lawyers and accountants) will all die off and we can get on with civilization…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 9:31 am

Techdirt:Amazon Gets Offensive On Patents
At least the lawyers are happy.

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Which is why we need to take RAH’s advice and start with shooting ALL the lawyers…

Our schools need to teach that there is no such thing as a positive feedback device that works in the long run. NONE! Whether mechanical or economic or judicial. Any systems that rely totally on positive reinforcement will in time self-destruct due to the steady increase in speed/intensity of operation.

Stable state economy. Limited government. Laws based on humanitarian and ecological principals rather than legal precedent. Manufacturing based on need, quality, longevity, and life-span ecological impact rather than artificially created want and economic accounting.

Time to quit dreaming and get back to scanning.