Category Archives: Computers
Does Internet Shaming of Companies Really Help?
July 5, 2006 – 2:50 pm
The Washington Post observes the trend of Internet shaming, in which people embarrass companies and individuals online for their bad behavior.
Hitachi Travelstar Supernovas
June 27, 2006 – 9:25 pm
Some time this morning my wife’s laptop hard drive bit the dust. It crashed for good with no warning, just making a clicking sound when we powered the computer. I booted into Knoppix, and when it did detect a hard drive at all it said “can’t find superblock.” I even put the drive in the [...]
Boston LinuxWorld
April 6, 2006 – 4:02 pm
Today I dropped in on Boston’s LinuxWorld Expo. I was surprised at how few attendees there were; maybe it had to do with today’s being the last day of the conference. Those at the booths seemed a little desperate to get rid of their free t-shirts and pens. I’m probably naïve to think this odd, [...]
Flash for 64-bit Fedora Core 4
March 21, 2006 – 10:58 pm
I complained last week that there’s no Flash for Linux 64-bit. Ziobudda asked why I didn’t just install the 32-bit Firefox. Why not? I couldn’t think of any good reason. So here’s how I did it. First of all, I wanted to use yum so I could avoid all dependency issues (not to mention it [...]
Funny
March 15, 2006 – 6:11 pm
I went to register for the LinuxWorld Expo coming to town next month, and I can’t see most of their site. I can’t see it because it’s Flash-based, and there’s no Flash for my computer’s operating system and architecture: Linux 64-bit.