I just finished reading Lawrence Lessig’s new book Free Culture, available under a Creative Commons License. You can download the PDF or buy it here.
My senior year at Duke, I took a seminar on Information Technology and the Internet and how they affect different aspects of society. There, I first read Lessig’s Code. [...]
Back when I was but a wee lad, I was lucky enough that my family got an Apple IIgs for our home (this is back when you practiced typing at school on an Apple IIe and thought it was so incredible, loading everything on the disk drives). There were some simple games that came [...]
KDE ended up taking 30 hours to compile. Which I guess on a 600MHz laptop isn’t that bad. Modern systems should be much better. But the more and more I’ve played with it, the better it is.
The Portage system is the way to install software. It is slower, because often you [...]
… but decided to go with a whole new blogging subsystem. Wordpress is simply more powerful! I’ve definitely had fun setting it up. I found this template I like, but I need to dive into it to correct the color schemes so it better matches my site. There are so many [...]
If you have access to HBO, I highly recommend “Deadwood.” I’ve been very impressed with HBO’s original programming (I not ashamed to say I really enjoyed the last season of Sex and the City). There are some really interesting characters, and HBO’s ability to go no-holds-barred into a script because they don’t have [...]
Well the Gentoo 2.6.3 kernel finished compiling sometime around midday. I’m now installing xfree, and then onto kde. I’m told this is the longest part (20 hours of compilation time?) I can see why its more convient to have someone else compile it (ie the package system, RPM, DEB, etc). But [...]
Now that I’ve gotten the site overall in the works, I’m going to be looking for a new template for the Blog area. I think it needs a little tweaking to match the decor of the main site… Though that will probably take more time than I currently have at the moment. [...]