Posted by Richard Bennett
I always look forward to this March Madness thing not because I enjoy men in short pants elbowing each other, but because it’s the harbinger of Spring. Monday is opening day for the A’s against the Evil Yankees, but this weekend is the Bay Bridge Series against the evil drug addicts from China Basin. Take [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
I’ve been using Linux on my desktop at work for years, and during that time I’ve maintained a doggy slow Linux box at home mainly for remote work on the desktop. So when I did my latest hardware upgrade of the home computer, I decided to switch over from Windows 2000 to Fedora Core Linux, [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
As the great philosopher Willie Nelson once said:
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold
They’d rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded levis
And each night begins a new day
If you don’t understand him, and he don’t die [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
Maybe those Burning Man people aren’t completely worthless after all:
Now the group, known as Burners Without Borders, is using new Kyocera mobile hot-spot technology to create a wide-area-network in an area with little, if any, Internet access. Their shoestring network, based on $250 routers and $150 wireless cards, could prove to be a model for [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
This is going to cause a great deal of hysterical posturing before it’s all over:
See this old post for some of the background work.
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