Archive for October, 2006

Apparently there’s a major, show-stopping bug with Xubuntu’s upgrade manager:
Upgrading from Xubuntu 6.06
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NOTE: There is a recently discovered bug which makes upgrading via the graphical update-manager crash and leave the upgrade process in a state that can only be recovered from by dropping to the command line.
Therefore, it is recommended that instead of upgrade-manager, the [...]

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And apparently the next release will be called… Feisty Fawn?? Huh. I think I like that better than Edgy Eft. You know what? It might just be my favorite name yet.

This week’s Time Magazine features an excerpt from Barack Obama’s memoir, The Audacity of Hope, in which he discusses his faith, and describes an encounter he once had with a pro-lifer:
“You folks want to come inside?” I asked.
“No, thank you,” the man said. He handed me a pamphlet. “Mr. Obama, I want you to know [...]

The Islamic practice of forcing women to cover their body, face and hair has always disturbed me. Today, thanks once again to the Internet Infidels Newswire, I found an article from The Guardian that articulates exactly how I feel about the issue (emphasis mine):
The veil turns women into things. It was shocking to find on [...]

I would post this as a comment, but the fascists at Friendster won’t allow non-Friendster members to make comments.
From A man and his Penguin:
We’re all annoyed when a website tells us that we need to be using Internet Explorer on Windows. I got *really* annoyed at NineMSN when one of its sites told me that [...]

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I am a…
Modern, Cool Nerd
73 % Nerd, 60% Geek, 34% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in [...]

Weird Al’s new video, “White and Nerdy” — a parody of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty”. It friggin’ rocks. Even Chamillionaire likes it.

Yikes!
Less than 24 hours after its final release, Internet Explorer 7 has been found to be vulnerable to an exploit dating back to November 2003, which was discovered affecting IE6 last April. The issue surrounds Microsoft’s handling of MIME HTML resources, security company Secunia said in an advisory.
The vulnerability apparently involves a very simple trick [...]