I’ve decided that I really don’t like the Wordpress template I’m using here on apt-get install, so I am going to be changing it sometime soon. That means I’ll be testing out a number of them, and since I don’t have a test server set up for this blog, it means that y’all will see [...]

I just finished a major battle trying to get my Brother HL-1440 laser printer working in cups. Apparently, many people who tried it had no problems at all. I, however, had nothing but problems. I didn’t have a problem detecting the printer, either directly connected to my Debian computer via USB, or via an SMB [...]

Tetsou’s article regarding the “7 Deadly Sins of Email amused me, because I am guilty of at least a couple of the sins. Email is not my strong point. I prefer to stay in touch with people via email, but I am notoriously bad at actually replying to email. So the seventh sin
7. Failure to [...]

David ‘cdlu’ Graham apparently was trying to make some kind of point about freedom or privacy or… well, I have no idea what his recent post on NewsForge (“Tor: Freedom for whom?”) was trying to say. See if you can parse this bit:
Schneier states that the debate is wrongfully categorised as a debate between privacy [...]

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. I have been using Dapper for a few weeks now, and just noticed that I’m effected by bug #29760: “Sound does not work properly in Flash in firefoxâ€?. Don’t ask me how I’ve gone this long without noticing it. Anyway, Ricardo Pérez López posted a fix that worked for [...]

I am trying to control my enthusiasm, especially after being sucked by the false rumors that Arrested Development was gonna make a return on Showtime. But it sure sounds like Futurama is going to return!
When Katey Sagal visited The Late Late Show the other day, she told Craig that the show is coming back [...]

My first hard drive was a 40mb hard drive for an Amiga 600. At the time I was thrilled to have so much space. How could I ever use up that whole capacity? Impossible, I thought. Absolutely impossible. Fast-forward 15 years or so. After the hard drive I just added to my system (and big [...]