Monthly Archives: April 2007

Desktop Enviroments and a new kernel

Posted on 30 April 2007 by

So since I’ve now got a stable install of Gentoo thats lasted longer than a month I’ve been playing a lot with desktop environments and window managers. I generally use Gnome as my default when logging on through GDM but … Continue reading →

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You knew it’d happen…

Posted on 25 April 2007 by

Okay, so about that last post. First off this isn’t really a response so much as it as a… look around. I’m not going to debate or fight with anyone. So with that said; I only got one comment. And … Continue reading →

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Why Paludis?

Posted on 24 April 2007 by

So your sitting at your computer looking around. Your tired of portage. It just isn’t doing what you want. So you go looking around and you find two alternatives. Paludis and pkgcore. Neither have names that make any sense and … Continue reading →

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Microsoft A National Security Threat

Posted on 23 April 2007 by

As I watch CNBC at this moment they are discussing Microsoft as a national security threat. Ira Winkler, one of the guest speakers, is totally off on his reasoning. MS software is not under attack because its more popular. That … Continue reading →

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Mathematics, Computer Science, and Open Source

Posted on 22 April 2007 by

So you may or may not know I am about two weeks away from having a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in History. As a historian I’m spot on. History always and probably always will be one of my … Continue reading →

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Thank you Richard Brown

Posted on 19 April 2007 by

If you don’t know Richard Brown or even know who he is, your not a lone. I don’t know him either. But I do know he’s a Gentoo developer and is also working on Palduis. We are publicly thanking him … Continue reading →

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All Kinds of Crazy-ness

Posted on 19 April 2007 by

Alright, so I’ve finished my presentation for my mathematics capstone, but not my paper. The paper is probably more important and I’m hoping to make huge headway on it tonight. I also need to write my math history paper, do … Continue reading →

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Cryptography

Posted on 12 April 2007 by

So I’m in the process of writing my capstone paper and preparing my power point presentation on cryptography. I can’t really say I’m a big fan of cryptography but it is defiantly more interesting as a computer science endeavor than … Continue reading →

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I’m thinking about switching

Posted on 12 April 2007 by

So my laptop is aging. Its about 5 years old, which isn’t bad for a lot of people but things are starting to go bad as well. Neither battery works and the hard drive is starting to grind a lot … Continue reading →

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The BSD wireless driver controversy

Posted on 9 April 2007 by

I’m sure everyone has seen this on a news site somewhere. Basically the people in charge of the GPL’ed version of the bcm wireless drivers have accused one of the BDD team members of copying code and relicensing it without … Continue reading →

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