22 Mar
So I don’t really care for CentOS. It’s a project the builds binary packages from the source provided by Red Hat as part of RHEL (That would be Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and then gives them out for free. Great concept. But it’s distributing Red Hat, and the Red Hat folks don’t even like them. […]
Posted in Geek, Politics, Rants by: Alex
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10 Mar
Now, I’m not going to go straight to the personal attacks I have to level against Mr. Enderle. I’m going to save those for later. And I’m not going to bother debunking his 5 points; there are more than enough people commenting very effectively on that subject on his blog.
No, instead, I’m going to look at who is taking which view in this debate. The article has proven to be very insightful not because of any of the content that the author put in, but rather because of the large number of comments that have been posted about it. And the thing that really struck me as interesting in the whole discussion was the constant battle betweek geeks and business.
Posted in Geek, News, Politics by: Alex
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09 Feb
Ok, this is just sad. Jim Samples, general manager and executive VP of Cartoon Network resigned today because of the fiasco surrounding the now-infamous Boston bomb-scare caused by their guerilla advertising campaign. After 13 years, he’s gone because we are afraid. Of what? Everything! Lets go and bomb somebody before they get us first! Run […]
Posted in News, Politics by: Alex
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28 Jan
Looks like our little baby Bush is getting all “growned-up”! Questioned recently by a reporter regarding his plans to push forward his Iraq troop deployments despite lack of congressional support, Bush responded “I’m the decision-maker.” Note that I’m relatively certain that the hypenation in that statement was provided by the reporter, not by The Decider. […]
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31 Dec
Saddam Hussein has been tried, found guilty, and executed for crimes against humanity. While I believe that, the validity of the trial notwithstanding, he is certainly guilty, I must say that the use of the death penalty is a step in the wrong direction. The Iraqi people have handed down their harshest sentence as a […]
Posted in Events, News, Politics by: Alex
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03 Oct
So I was just checking out the Meeblog (from the folks who bring us Meebo) and I saw the coolest thing! A near-real-time (15 minute delay) map of meebo traffic showing how many people are using Meebo from which parts of the world. It’s really very informative. I was amazed at just how connected different […]
Posted in Amusing, News, Politics by: Alex
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