Deb Package Repositories: It’s Like Christmas Every Day!
One of the best things about Kubuntu (and other Debian-based Linux distrubutions) is the packaging system, which gives you easy access to an enormous collection of software libre. And sometimes while browsing though the collection of available packages, you discover fantastic little programs that you hadn’t even been looking for.
My surprise find for today: “python-empathy: [...]
A Computer Hardware Mini-HowTo
How to install a 2.5-inch (laptop size) hard drive in a 3.5-inch (desktop size) drive bay:
Search locally or on the internet for an appropriate mounting bracket designed for mounting a 2.5-inch disk in a 3.5-inch bay. Buy it.
Shut down and unplug the computer into which the hard disk will be installed. Open up the computer’s [...]
Getting It On (And On, And On…)
What. The. Fuck.
Police in Orlando, Florida claim “a typical prostitute that’s HIV-positive could potentially infect more than 18,000 people a year.”
Taking into account HIV transmission probabilities, Classically Liberal estimates that SuperProsti would have to serve at least “9 million customers [per year]. Disney World only manages 27 million.”
Am I A Racist?
Two excellent posts from Megan McArdle show why it is very difficult for any of us to answer that question with any certainty. (Well, it’s an easy question to answer for people who are openly and proudly racist. For the rest of us who’d like to think the answer is no, it’s a fine little [...]
Old Hardware, New Hardware
My recent lack of blog activity owes partly to school, and partly to the fact the my laptop finally died (it had been on its last legs for a while). I replaced it with a desktop box from Dell; desktops are a lot cheaper, especially in light of the comparatively short life expectancy of laptops. [...]
My New Road Bike
I bought a Trek Madone 5.0 to replace my stolen road bike. It’s a 2007 Madone, not one of Trek’s newest-generation 2008 Madones; Trek’s fancy new design is the reason that this bike was marked down to a price I could afford. Regardless of the new 2008 Madone, this bike is still a wonderful [...]
