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2010-08-27 09:19 | fche blog seriously critical acclaim

During half an hour of goofing around on our synthesizer (though that’s interesting too), I managed to eke out enjoyable (or at least recognizable) enough noises that Eric awarded me with a proposed name for my act: “Airship Disasters Music Band”. Someday, I’ll leave the computer business for music, and I’ll use that name. You heard it here first.

2010-08-21 14:43 | fche blog enun-dorsals, tech 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.

2010-08-19 17:58 | fche blog politics in other words XI

claim: When convinced he’s right — which is often — he turns his head at the podium to the right and left, gazing above his audience into the near distance… in fewer words: “Obama’s teleprompters make him look haughty”

2010-08-11 21:21 | fche blog eric, stuart overheard

Upstairs, just after bath time for the brats, after some hallway chatter about protons and density, then:
`Enough talking about the periodic table, put on some clothes!’.

2010-08-11 16:08 | fche blog tech systemtap is not a "rejected kernel patch"

If this article quotes Ted Ts’o correctly, we have a problem.

2010-08-01 19:49 | fche blog tech fedora upgrade

I’m flabbergasted at the ease of upgrading a live fedora system between versions. This is not supposed to work, especially with lots of customized public/service processes. Yet, a ‘yum update’ from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, live, worked almost with out a hitch.

Well, there is always postgresql, breaking updates since (before) 2007.

2010-07-05 10:15 | fche blog politics in other words X

Headline: Obama’s new mission for NASA: Reach out to Muslim world
In other words: Charles Bolden pulls a great practical joke on al-Jazeera. I think…

2010-07-01 17:14 | fche blog politics, seriously contraband

Find this wonderful little track on youtube and play it while reading the following.