2010-08-21 14:43 | fche blog enun-dorsals
hacker documentaries
For those of us who started their hacker careers in the 1980s, documentaries like Jason Scott’s Get Lamp and BBS are a pure sentimental pleasure. They cover technologies we grew up with, participated in, which gave us our impetus in the field. Their authenticity separates them from a routine TV show: the interviews are given by the real people who built and championed all that great early home computer stuff. However, Jason is a talented enough to weave them into stories that are interesting to non-specialists too. My dear lady wife has enjoyed whole chunks of the BBS documentary.
The documentaries are CC-licensed, so you can watch/try them for free. If you like them, toss some bucks Jason’s way and get the disks.
2010-06-20 18:55 | fche blog enun-dorsals
toy story 3 - not a little kid movie
Having just seen the aforementioned, I’m not sure yet whether it was a good movie. But it was definitely not a good little kid movie.
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2010-06-08 12:46 | fche blog enun-dorsals
dell satisfaction
I’ve owned quite a bit of Dell computer hardware over the years. My main home server is a now-discontinued Dell PowerEdge 2900 box, with plenty of RAM and disk. It has been completely solid, and I expect will do the job fine for another few years. There was only one upgrade still worth doing: the processors.
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2010-06-07 11:14 | fche blog enun-dorsals
tick tock chomp
Saturday morning, our family had the misfortune of running out of sufficient groceries for a big breakfast, so opted to try a new nearby restaurant. It was full, so we were prepared for slower service. But what we got was slower than slow. It was slow enough that all four of us had to eat up time by drawing, because to talk would have meant to grumble. My humble contribution:
It also sported the most pretentious paraphrasing ever on a “stay here, let us seat you” sign at the entrance:
The food itself was great. And, the long cashier queue allowed me the pleasure of assisting a charming & confident young lady, who was a spitting image of a junior
Sandrine Holt.
2010-05-14 16:31 | fche blog enun-dorsals
dedication to the automobile
The markers are ten minutes apart, representing just under nine hours of solid driving. Someone must really like it.
2010-05-05 11:31 | fche blog enun-dorsals
paging Les Lonkovic
You've had your fun. You got the goatse message, yet you keep snooping. Go away.
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2010-04-12 11:08 | fche blog enun-dorsals
bugzilla for meatspace issues
This service is a great idea. It’s a newish free problem-tracking system for concerns in one’s municipality. One can use it to report “streetlight out on the corner of X and Y”, and if one’s city has employees who monitor the list, the problem’s resolution can be tracked publicly. Many cities already use this to some extent.
2010-03-25 12:02 | fche blog enun-dorsals
paging Carola Lonkovic
There is something you need to know about the person calling himself with first name Leslie, Lester, Len, Les, Lesley, Steve, and/or Stephan and last name Lankovich, Lonkovic, Rankovic, Lokovic, and/or Lonkrovic.
UPDATE: Thanks for the call. I hope the information was useful.
