http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog Eric's insights on politics, technology, free software, computer animation and everything else Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:01:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's time once again for a Linux distro review.  This month, Antix 7.5 was included on the LXF DVD.  It's another light distro, so I will use the same metrics I used in the Lightweight Linux Throwdown.  Antix is based upon Mepis which is, in turn, based upon Debian.  I ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/10/02/review-antix-75/ 50 to 75: 75 to 100: 300 to 400: 500 to 600: http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/29/some-more-photo-graduations/ The GNU Software Project to provide a wholly free operating system turns 25 today! Check out this great video showing British superstar Stephen Fry .  Thanks to rms, Linus Torvalds, Aaron Siego, Miguel de Icaza and others who have worked hard to give us a free operating system that ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/27/happy-25th-birthday-gnu/ A few days ago, I released my lastest video, "Robots".  It's a fan-tribute music video based on the song of the same name by Flight of the Conchords.  Check it out and enjoy. http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/24/robots-is-released/ Time, once again, to unload some of the quotes I've recorded onto the blog: "I always say, 'If you can't beat 'em .... Report them to Homeland Security. They'll beat 'em for you' " -Colbert on The Colbert Report 9 June 2008 (03:25:23 PM) Danny: mom just gets pissed if we don't ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/20/quotes-6/ Today I was listening to Fresh Air on NPR.  They had an economics guy on who's now a professor at one of the University of Maryland campuses and was involved in Clinton's economic team.  (Although he didn't always see eye to eye with Clinton's treasury secretary)  This guy put the ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/18/the-current-financial-mess-we-never-should-have-ended-up-here/ So I waited until about halfway through Fedora 9's initial life-cycle to install it.  I listed the reasons for that here.  Once KDE 4.1 was finally out and most of the complaints had stopped, I took the plunge.  I am actually very happy with Fedora 9.  I think most of ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/13/fedora-9-review-also-gnome-in-fedora-9-part-2/ This one goes out to all the physics geeks out there.  (Applied Engineering Physics counts too, Jing Qing) http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/10/physics-and-the-end-of-the-world/ System Information for WIndows (SIW) is a program you MUST have installed on your Windows computer.  It gives you all the information you could ever want to know about your computer in a nice easy to use interface.  I learned about it in a recent Computer User Magazine.  Here are ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/04/system-information-for-windows/ Google's new Chrome Web Browswer has been all over the news today.  See this general one here.  Or this one mentioning how it's supposed to be a Microsoft killer.   This one talks about how blazingly fast it is.  (I agree!)  And, finally, this one talking about how Google is ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/03/google-chrome/ 25 to 50: 50 to 75: 75 to 100: 100 to 200: 600 to 700: 700 to 800: http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/09/01/some-more-flickr-views-group-graduations/ Now if we could only get this on TV... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/08/28/great-linux-ad/ Another micro-blogging post?  What's going on here?  Well, when I first did my micro-blogging post, Identi.ca had just gone public and I didn't think there was a reason to join yet another micro-blogging service.  But two things came together to convince me to check out Identi.ca.  First of all, I've ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/08/27/identica-the-free-software-micro-blogging-platform/ I've never used Suse or openSuse.  As I've mentioned before, I've been a "loyal" Fedora user since Fedora Core 1 and I have Ubuntu on my laptop since it had awesome laptop support.  I even got some Suse CDs as a prize for the Letter of the Month from Linux ... http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/08/27/review-opensuse-110-and-kde-4/ My latest pictures moving from one views group to another. 25 to 50: 50 to 76: 100 to 200: http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/08/26/pictures-moving-up-the-views-groups/