Time to upgrade my Internet connection!
This is using Verizon 1.5Mbps/384Kbps DSL service:
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That’s better! And on Feb 9th: Looks like fairly consistent speeds, not quiet 3mb/s download but pretty close.
View ArticleConfused about PSU’s?
Confused about power supplies for motherboards? Me too. This will help: http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/30/power-supplies-become-increasingly-expensive ATX = 20 pin plug, your...
View Articlekde4 & debian!
Works great! Following the instructions here: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html However, if you install the KDE4 kdeartwork package, any remaining kde3 packages, such as k3b &...
View ArticleWaving frog waves for the last time
Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took...
View ArticleDell BIOS updates using Linux
Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then...
View ArticleWar
Is always bad. And this is a very sad, graphic picture: http://www.photojournalism.org
View ArticleHow’s Eddie?
Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/ This just feckin’ sucks: Eddie died in...
View ArticlePollution in the World’s Oceans
Amazing article about the extent of pollution in the world’s oceans: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,6670018,full.story The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy...
View ArticleLinks
Different things that caught by eye today. The worst foods to eat in America (via Boing-boing): http://www.menshealth.com/20worst The worst being fries with cheese and ranch dressing from a nation...
View ArticleAdobe Air for Linux?
A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this...
View ArticleDrugs in Wexford
Interesting editoral on RTE about heroin use in Wexford (Ireland) and the lack of attention it’s getting from the Government. Seems to me (many) politicians wait until things reach crisis point before...
View ArticleWinter Wonderland #24!
Wow, over 32,000 views on Flickr.com, and #24 in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest:
View ArticleHeader Image
Trying to replace the header image in the theme I’m currently using. The image is the word unsleepable in the screenshot below: The theme is called Unsleepable and is by Ben Gray, which is a modified...
View ArticleFake IRS E-mail: AKA Spam
Don’t fall for it! If you get an e-mail like this don’t click on the link, because it’s NOT from the IRS. It’s someone is trying to fool you into giving them your bank account number and social...
View ArticleGolden Frogs
Two great videos on YouTube about the Golden Frogs and 2 scientists attempts to save frogs affected by the chytrid fungus, a fungus that is affecting and killing and driving many of the worlds frogs to...
View ArticleBoston Linux Installfest XXVII
Boston Linux Installfest XXVIII When: Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power...
View ArticleMy Flickr Explore (Feb 2007)
1. Fred and his cap!, 2. Sunrise @ the lake, 3. Boston Twilight, 4. Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973, 5. Celtic Sprially Wrought-iron, 6. Frozen Bog Puddle, 7. Boston Sunset, 8. Maghery, 9. Under Lough...
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