Nov

19

Microsoft’s Spider Meets the Linux Starfish

November 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Novell agrees to deal with Microsoft and Red Hat says no. According to some sources the deal between Novell and Microsoft, inked earlier this month to encourage interoperability between the competing operating systems, was agreed to by Novell to forestall Microsoft initiated litigation on intellectual property issues. Red Hat has recently rebuffed Steve Ballmer’s [...]

Nov

18

Linux Round 2: Yellow Dog

November 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Yellow Dog Linux was designed with Mac users in mind so I figured I might find it easier to set up on my Powerbook. I created a set of CDs from the sagittarious version of Yellow Dog. I partitioned my hard drive and reinstalled Tiger. Yellow Dog installation went without a hitch.
I [...]

Nov

16

Linux Round 1: Ubuntu

November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Since I plan to spend some time becoming familiar with the Linux operating system, I thought I would add a little zip to my trusty Titanium Powerbook. I downloaded and created the Ubuntu Linux bootable CD for the Power PC architecture. I immediately ran into a problem. My video display flickered uncontrollably and [...]

Nov

8

Toys R Us Gets in the Spirit

November 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Unfortunately it’s not the Christmas spirit. In a season when we have, once again, been bombarded by a spate of political TV ads that have served to remind us of our baser, human nature, Toys R Us has one-upped the politicos. Perverting the time-honored tradition of parents reading to their children, TRU has [...]

Nov

6

A.A. Milne on Cause and Effect

November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment

“Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition)” (A. A. Milne)

Wind on the Hill
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It’s flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn’t keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For [...]

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