Archive for the 'Geeky' Tag

Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” is due out next month and I’ve been reading the release notes for the alpha versions (called “Tribes” for this release) of Xubuntu, which is the flavor I use. I haven’t tested Gutsy for myself yet, but some of this stuff looks really, really cool!

Hey, wouldn’t you really like a pink laptop? Yeah, my sister wants one, too, so we ordered a Dell for her with one of those fancy new paint jobs they’ve been advertising the heck out of. She was supposed to have it in time to take to college with her, but now she’s at school [...]

Three browsers at the same time, man.

Actually, Safari didn’t impress me all that much. Sure, I’d use it over IE, but I’d use anything over IE. Which is not to say that I don’t like Safari, it just doesn’t “wow” me like, say, Opera does. Sorry, Steve Jobs. The truth hurts.

Did you know that zombie PCs are now a threat to our national security?
The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.
The agency said the zombies or bots were “a growing threat to national security”.
There is a solution, you know. Take all the PCs running Windows [...]

Ooh! This is exciting!
Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple “dream big” and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys.
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He said Safari was “the fastest browser on Windows”, saying it was twice as fast as Internet Explorer.
…Yeah, I think Jobs might be just saying that, but this is enough to make me want [...]

u can has lulz plzkthx

I have this pet idea that I’ve been tossing around in my head. There are basically two types of computer users: people who think computers should be like computers, and people who think computers should be like toasters. Computer people actually appreciate what the device is capable of, understand how to maintain the thing without [...]

Every time I hear about things like this, a little part of my brain commits seppuku.
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Wizard
22% Combativeness, 20% Sneakiness, 88% Intellect, 13% Spirituality
Brilliant! You are a Wizard!
Wizards are spells-casters who study powerful arcane magic. While Wizards tend to be pretty fragile, some of those spells can pack quite a punch. Unlike Clerics, Wizards aren’t as good at fixing people as they are at breaking them, so watch [...]