Robot cockroaches invade social networks
Cockroaches have become one of my odder fascinations since my arrival in South East Asia several years ago. My first apartment in Quezon City came complete with about 300 coprophagous house guests, cockroaches. My neighbors were rather fond of hoarding roach habitats, as such I was stuck with roaches for months. Rather than go on [...]
Stupid is a misnomer
I have given thought to our perpetual tenacity to refer to other sentient beings as being ‘stupid’, especially when communicating on-line. Should you be interested, my conclusions are below: If your smart enough to manage to get yourself on-line, you can not possibly be stupid. If you use terms such as ‘r u something’, you [...]
GNU Panel 0.2.3 is out :)
I’m excited and pleased to announce that GNU Panel (a free web hosting automation system) version 0.2.3 is out, and that the official Mercurial repositories have been created! A very special thanks to Serverbalance for giving us room to host our Xen farm. GNU Panel now features a dialog based installer, much easier to use [...]
Multics (finally) released
MIT has finally been given the green light to release the final revision of Multics, a mainframe timesharing operating system that influenced the development of every Unix-like operating system known today, including UNIX itself. Multics MR 12.5 is now open source. No, its not free software, its simply open source. 40 years after its initial [...]
The social pedia
I found a rather insightful commentary discussing some of Wikipedia’s fundamental problems in the Slashdot submission queue today. The commentary is presented more or less as an introspective series of rhetorical questions from the perspective of a disgruntled user. I don’t find Wikipedia’s problems to be very interesting. While I hope that Wikipedia retains its [...]
Can’t we all just geek a long?
I should preface this post by saying, my idea of success entails contributing something to the world that is useful and advances (all) of us to greater joy, entertainment or productivity. While un-clogging a toilet today, I gave extensive thought to Microsoft. No, it was not the matter causing the clog that inspired me, it [...]
Why can’t they all be like ectio?
I am growing increasingly frustrated with the amount of people who copy my blog in order to boost their search engine rankings to sell Viagra. I impose a copyright restriction, all rights reserved, for just that purpose. Yes, such restrictions are futile however they do permit me a degree of recourse in shutting down web [...]
Whoopsie :)
While trying to get the kinks worked out of an automated database backup system based on ext3cow working, I accidentally broke the database that feeds this blog. No big tradgedy, one post and about 100 spam comments in the akismet queue are now linked to that big inode in the sky. Fortunately, I had just [...]
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