On Airplanes And Anti Lock Brakes

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I was just reading about some of the speculation into why the Air France Airbus crashed. Investigators are beginning to suspect total and complete malfunction of the on board computers that automatically adjust for things like turbulence. Apparently, the pilots may have believed that the craft was flying so slowly that it was about to [...]

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To reiterate: No, I don’t use PayPal

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This is one of the many reasons why I stopped using PayPal years ago. Somewhere along the line, I think that they forgot that they urge you to tie your PayPal account to your checking account, the same account that you use to pay your rent/mortgage. Then they want a back up funding source. So, [...]

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Cisco Sued By The Free Software Foundation

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I don’t think that anyone ever dreamed of the Free Software Foundation needing to enforce its license and copyright in a court of law, however, this unlikely event has happened. The FSF is suing Cisco Systems for violating version 2 of the GNU General Public License and Lesser GPL. You can read the complaint here [...]

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A joke that came true – diet water

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About a year ago, I posted a joke announcing “diet water”. I did not think that any company in their right mind would try to come up with such a product. Last week I saw diet water on grocery store shelves, made by some company in China. I hate to think that my sense of [...]

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Odd delays with G-Mail

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I’ve been experiencing some odd delays with my G-Mail account, some messages have been arriving almost 2 days late. I’m sure this is something that will be fixed soon. In the meantime, I have set up a temporary address on this domain: tinkertim@echoreply.us Note, if you already have my regular address @echoreply, just continue to [...]

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Going back to Debian

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This has been a very trying week with Ubuntu. I recently deployed a large Xen farm using Ubuntu Hardy. Mixing 32 and 64 bit guests under a 64 bit hypervisor with a 64 bit privileged domain exposed some interesting bugs, such as time going backwards when using the default xen clock source. This nasty bug [...]

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What is a computer, really?

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I received a very interesting e-mail from the FSF today, sent via its announcement mailing list. The FSF (and numerous others) are very concerned about the IPhone being out of reach of free software due to its locking restrictions and the Apple developer NDA. I began to wonder, in this day and age, what is [...]

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What a week (and its only Tuesday)

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Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. What a crazy week this has been and its only Tuesday! As a present, my wife got me a little hibachi grill that is safe to use on our concrete balcony. She also got me some charcoal and tongs! I began drooling while thinking about grilled burgers and [...]

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