Eric Mesa | June 26, 2006
As I have often claimed, Creative Commons is of most benefit to unknown artists. Bands, photographers, and painters (to name a few) will remain unknown if they charge for their work. Why? Because human nature is not to purchase something if you are unsure if you will like it. When an [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 25, 2006
Here is the latest batch of quotes I have gathered up:
Found in the winehq irc room
1. Knowledge is Power
2. Power Corrupts
therefore
Study hard and become evil
“How many kamikaze missions have you flown?” “Fourteen Sir!” “Shouldn’t it be just one?” -Early work of Douglas Adams
Apple for style, Linux for security, Windows for Solitaire
['a', 'b', 'new', 'mpilgrim', [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 24, 2006
Thanks to Danny, I am now a member of the yet another addictive internet site. Last.fm, which works with the Linux music player amaroK will collect all the songs you listen to. It will then display it on a webpage such as this one. If this was all it did, it would [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 13, 2006
Alright! Google Earth 4 has been released. This time around Google has not let us Linux users high and dry! In fact, they have released Windows, Linux AND Macintosh versions of Google Earth! I think I will finally download it – I had been waiting for the rumored Linux version. [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 11, 2006
The computing industry has lots of euphimisms, but one of the ones that gets me really miffed is “trusted computing”. It is a process by which computer companies are trying to exert THEIR control on machines WE have bought with OUR money! Trusted Computing is the way they show they don’t trust us, [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 8, 2006
Others have probably covered it to death. I am just mentioning it because it is that important.
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Eric Mesa | June 4, 2006
As I was browsing around /usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc/ looking for the emacs manual in order to look for the command to launch the doctor and I found the following. It’ll be funniest if you’re used to Unix man pages. Here it is, the man page for condom.
CONDOM(1) [...]
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