Monthly Archives: August 2007
No command line, eh?
One of the things I hear most often as an objection to Linux can be boiled down to "fear of the command line."
Even though modern Linux distros like Ubuntu only occasionally require a trip to the bash prompt, I hear this over and over again as a reason to use Windows or (more often, these [...]
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Two strikes against Geeks.com
I've ordered from Geeks.com for years -- usually with good results, but my last order from Geeks.com may be my last order from the company, period.
I ordered several items, including a cheapie Polaroid digital camera. I didn't expect a lot from this item, it's not a high-dollar camera -- but I did expect that it [...]
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Wait, I just got here!
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane... well, yeah. It's a plane. More specifically, it's a plane leaving Sunday night with me on it, heading from Florida to San Francisco to go to LinuxWorld Expo.
Yes, yes, I just got home from OSCON, but I don't schedule the shows. I just [...]
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Discussing books you haven't read
For the bookish in the audience, I'd recommend reading "Books we have never read," over on the Times Online site, a review of Pierre Bayard's essay "How to discuss books that one hasn't read."
Too much to blog about right now, but this touches on a few themes of interest to me -- namely, that the [...]
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Goodbye Geeks.com