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drop the bomb productions gets a facelift

Eric Mesa | January 18, 2008

After having tried drupal for a couple of years on an unrelated site, I came to see that it would be a great way to develop a new site for drop the bomb productions.  After about two days of converting the site over, you can now see the results.  I think it results in a [...]

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Haiku Vs Syllable Part 2

Eric Mesa | January 14, 2008

I’ve tried a bunch of times, but apparently something’s wrong with the Syllable VMWare files and LiveCD because I was unable to get either to run. They both appear to be missing a bunch of necessary files. Share and Enjoy:

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GPL shows benefits in unexpected places!

Eric Mesa | January 13, 2008

When most people think of the GPL, if they think of it at all, they tend to think of Linux and perhaps other operating systems.  However, there are many benefits to using the GPL for programs on a smaller level.   For example there is a Go Application in Facebook.  This programmer could have gone [...]

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KDE 4 is out!

Eric Mesa | January 12, 2008

KDE 4.0 was released today!  After seeing screenshots like the ones I want to share with you, I can’t wait to try it.  Too bad Fedora won’t be including it until Fedora 9 in April. All of the following images were produced by/for KDE.org.  I’m just borrowing them for illustrative purposes. First of all, here’s [...]

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Haiku Vs Syllable Part 1

Eric Mesa | January 11, 2008

(Note:  I did the Haiku Part of this review in June of 2007, and didn’t get around to posting it, so some of these issues may have been resolved by now)  Everyone knows Windows, Apple, GNU/Linux and the BSDs.  These computer operating systems have been around for 10-20 or so years and people know what [...]

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iPod Shuffle

Eric Mesa | January 10, 2008

For years I had been saying that I would not buy an iPod product.  After all, they sell music in the iTunes music store with DRM on it.  All of my music on my Linux computer is in the OGG format and it can’t be played with iPods.  However, when it came time to buy [...]

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Eric Mesa Computers

Eric Mesa | January 9, 2008

Long time readers will know how much I love building computers.  And I have been given the chance to build another one!  This time it’s for Danielle’s aunt who saw the one I built for my father-in-law.  Her old computer is not fast enough for what she needs it to do so she asked me [...]

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Recent Quotes

Eric Mesa | January 7, 2008

“He was talking with what’s-his-nuts….” – someone at work “I’m not a snow bunny, I’m a snow fox.  I eat snow bunnies” – Danielle  Blogged with Flock Share and Enjoy:

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Mario Galaxy

Eric Mesa | January 2, 2008

I received Super Mario Galaxy for Christmas and I must say that I’m quite happy with the gift.  This is the most talked about Wii game for the end of 2007 and not without reason.  Everyone who’s into gaming kept mentioning that Mario Galaxy is the true successor to Super Mario 64 on the Gamecube.  [...]

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Charitable Donations for 2008

Eric Mesa | January 1, 2008

This year I decided to mainly support technological causes.  I donated to the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  I think that rms and the rest over at the FSF are really doing a lot of great work to preserve our freedoms.  I especially like the Defective by Design campaign they’ve been running.  [...]

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Happy New Year!

Eric Mesa | January 1, 2008

Welcome to 2008! Share and Enjoy:

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