Month August 2006

Attention dual-booters

Installing Vista will wipe your master boot record This means, for example, that if I install Ubuntu on my laptop along with XP that is already there, that when it comes time to upgrade from XP to Vista, the Vista…

Server crash

…but we’re back! The server Polizeros is on got clobbered today and crashed. BlueHost rebuilt it as fast as they could. Yes, even though they’ve had more than their fair share of problems these past few months (I’m expecting an…

Fair Use. Points for bloggers

Continuing our series of posts on fair use. Melanie Votaw, friend, author, and freelance writer, details what bloggers need to know about fair use. (printed with her permission.) Points for bloggers to remember when using a writer’s work 1. Internet…

Indeed

This poltical cartoon by John de Rosier of the Albany Times Union says it all. JonBenet been the top story for days now. It says something sick about news media management that they, for the most part, permit and encourage…

C’mon all you big strong men

Marines to recall troops to active duty The Marine Corps will soon begin ordering thousands of its troops back to active duty because of a shortage of volunteers for Iraq and Afghanistan – the first involuntary recall since the early…