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Eric Mesa | August 19, 2010
We all know that technology continues to get cheaper and cheaper every year. But this was brought into sharp relief yesterday when I looked up the invoice for Dave’s computer to see what components it contained. I built Dave’s computer in 2006. It was a graduation present from my parents and meant to be Dave’s [...]
Eric Mesa | August 9, 2010
I never really knew much about how CPUs worked until I took a class in CPU design at Cornell. Until that point I never knew about registers and cache and pipelines. Ever since then I’ve been growing in my understanding of how the CPU works and how all the parts fit together. This culminated in [...]
Eric Mesa | July 28, 2010
Almost exactly 2 years ago I started micro-blogging. Back then I signed up for Twitter, Pownce, and Plurk accounts. One month later I concluded that I really liked Twitter and that Pownce and Plurk were annoying. A few days later I discovered Identi.ca – a FLOSS version of Twitter and decided I would send frivolous [...]
Eric Mesa | July 23, 2010
This year I attended my first HOPE conference. HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a hacker conference organized by 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. After hearing about the talks they had at 2008’s HOPE (The Last HOPE) when I was listening to the 2600 podcast, I knew I had to attend this year. I was not [...]
Eric Mesa | May 26, 2010
You can get it here. Once I upgrade I will post a small review on the changes. Share and Enjoy:
Eric Mesa | April 2, 2010
Recently, when I started up Opera, it updated to 10.5. I noticed a huge cosmetic change. Observe: Yes, they have copied the GUI setup from Chrome. The tabs are now above the address bar. Now, they still have a separate search bar like Firefox, but this is a pretty big change. Also, although I can’t [...]
Eric Mesa | March 29, 2010
When I flew to Tampa last week, there was a magazine cover that claimed the days of free professional content over the Internet were over. The cable companies had a way, it claimed, to control the programs available and keep us paying >$100/month for cable. I didn’t read the article, but I have a guess [...]
Eric Mesa | March 13, 2010
I’ve been listening to podcasts for about two years now. I got into it because I love listening to some NPR programs, but they are always on when I’m at work or asleep on the weekends. Eventually, I heard on NPR that they have podcasts of various shows. I checked it out right away because [...]
Eric Mesa | February 4, 2010
I took a look at openSuse 11.1 nearly a year ago and so it’s time to see what’s changed with openSuse 11.2. For those new to my blog, when I review a new version of a distro I’ve reviewed before, I usually just do a comparison to the previous review. Also important to know is [...]
Eric Mesa | January 30, 2010
I last looked at Ubuntu 9.04 a little over six months ago. So I decided it was time to see what has changed. Since I’m now testing on a 64-bit machine, I decided to test the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. So here we go: I like the desktop, it looks pretty good. I liked 9.04 [...]
Eric Mesa | January 29, 2010
The guys over at Linux Outlaws are always talking about Tiny Core Linux because it always seems to be releasing a new version. I was impressed back in the day that Damn Small Linux could have a working Linux distro in only 50 MB. I know that Tiny Core Linux is technically not a full [...]
Eric Mesa | January 27, 2010
I’ve been wanting to try Arch Linux for quite some time now. They seem to have a similar aesthetic to Gentoo in that the main mission of Arch is to build your operating system from the ground up. You only add the things you need. So you don’t have any cruft on your system based [...]
Eric Mesa | January 26, 2010
I looked at Zenwalk 6.0 back in June and Zenwalk 6.2 is now out. I’m going to do a mini-review just comparing 6.0 to 6.2 to see what has changed. This may end up being very short if it’s mostly the same. One difference right away is that it’s using ext4 instead of XFS. The [...]
Eric Mesa | January 23, 2010
In my Slackware 13 review mfillpot gave some suggestions to improve the Slackware experience and I thought I would give them a shot. First off, changing the init level to 4 to allow KDM to show up instead of this startx business. I was happy to note that Slackware had emacs. So many distros have [...]
Eric Mesa | January 21, 2010
What I love about programming is the instant feedback. In most programming languages, after you set up a framework for the barest bones of a program you can then run it at every step of the way to confirm that you are moving towards your goal. What I love second-most about programming is the fact [...]
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