January 2004

eMachines

January 30, 2004

in Links, Tech

Gateway to Buy EMachines for $235 Million Aw, man. Emachines makes really great ultra cheap generic PCs that run linux well. I know, real l33t folk build thier own machines, but I don’t have that kind of time. Emachines does it pretty much right. Gateway doesn’t seem to do anything right. Crap.

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a note on links & Ikea rant

January 30, 2004

in Links, Meta

I had some angst earlier this week because I realized the funny ikea thing I had linked to had shown up on every single blog on the entire internet. Not because of me, of course, but because I’m linked into the same blog networks that everyone else is and these things come in waves. Ack! [...]

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new iPod

January 30, 2004

in Tech

The 10gig iPods that were recently discontinued by Apple (replaced by the 15gig) have been going cheap in various places, and I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and bought one from Amazon. This is my second iPod; I’ve had a 1st generation 5 gig iPod for almost two years now and it has completely changed [...]

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hacker ethic

January 30, 2004

in Links

The hacker ethic, an essay by Jono Bacon. I was nodding my head and murmuring “yeah, yeah” while reading this. My hacker playground is primarily documentation (which makes me kind of a mutant) but its the same core impulse, I think.

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slow learning process

January 24, 2004

in Meta

I’m slowly figuring out MT configuration, as I play with the software and actually read the manual (GASP) and figure things out. If you came here earlier and wanted to comment and noted that I had zero comments for everything and no way to post and wondered why, its because I didn’t understand the difference [...]

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