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What I’m reading The Atlantic The Economist Enigma: Alan Turning Night Falls: Iraq in the shadow of America’s War What I’m watching Firefly Galactica What I’m listening to Ani DiFranco System of a Down Black Eyed Peas Lords of Acid Nine Inch Nails Bill Gate’s keynote from Supercomputing makes for interesting watching, if you’ve got an hour and a half to run it in background: Streaming download. The first part, about graphical environments for web services workflows is something that I believe, and have been working on, as well. The most interesting piece, to me, was . . . → Read More: Microsoft I think I found a teensy bug in Cox‘s internet status tool. Select a region. Then click “display all current activities.” No matter which region you pick, you get a message indicating that “Some customers may be unable to log into Internet Tools at this time.” Nice. gentoo gentoo-nofb gentoo-nofb noapic All die while loading the module “hid”. That’s “human interface devices” … thanks for asking. gentoo-nofb noapic nousb gentoo-nofb nodetect Boots, but no keyboard support. Infuriating, because the bootloader can find the goddamn keyboard, but the kernel throws up its hands. gentoo-nofb noapic noload=hid Dies while loading the module . . . → Read More: Notes on gentoo for amd64, on the sw33t demo box Get rich quick and all that. A friend has a company. One of the partners in the company is selling all his stock. They’re looking for investors with at least $25K apiece to buy that stock. It’s a non-publically traded company (i.e: This is not a day trading or quick turnaround opportunity) which expects to . . . → Read More: Investment opportunity I read in this months Atlantic Monthly that the (former?) chess champion of the world, the man who played John Henry to the steam driller of Deep Blue in the modern man vs. machine that took place a few years back, I heard that Gary Kasparov has turned into a political agitator in Russia. He . . . → Read More: Russia |
