I found an interesting editorial called If I had my own Linux Distro. He’s got some good ideas but I wish he’d known what he was talking about on some others.
All posts for the month April, 2003
If I had my own Linux distribution
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 30, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/if-i-had-my-own-linux-distribution/
Outages
Yes, I’m still alive and so is my server. Unfortunately (note to self: cue up “I Hate My Frickin’ ISP” by Todd Rundgren in the background) Southwestern Bell seems intent on proving my theory that their technicians’ favorite thing to do when bored is to run around unplugging stuff to see what happens.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 29, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/outages/
This guy was anti-Microsoft years before anti-Microsoft was cool
Here’s an interesting article, written in 1997 in France, that goes all over the anti-Microsoft map, talking about technical problems, legal problems, bundling, and other issues. The interesting thing about this is that in 1997, there weren’t a lot of people willing to listen.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 27, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/this-guy-was-anti-microsoft-years-before-anti-microsoft-was-cool/
An easy way to improve audio quality
A lot of people think audio doesn’t matter when they edit video. They’re wrong. If you notice the audio, something’s wrong.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 23, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/an-easy-way-to-improve-audio-quality/
Watch this space: Microsoft buying Universal
It’s going to be really interesting to see if Mark Stevens Robert X. Cringely is right about this.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 19, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/watch-this-space-microsoft-buying-universal/
What brand of hard drive should I buy?
LinuxWorld posted an article today on how to install another hard disk in Linux. The guide’s pretty good from the software side.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 17, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/what-brand-of-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
Linux gets more attractive on the Xbox
There’s been another milestone in getting Linux running on Microsoft’s Xbox game console. It’s now possible to get it going if you bridge a couple of solder points on the motherboard to enable flashing the unit’s BIOS, then you use the James Bond 007 game and a save game that exploits a buffer overflow, and with a few more tricks, you can unlock the hard drive, put it in a Linux PC, install Linux, then move the drive back to the Xbox and turn it into a cheap Linux box.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 15, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/linux-gets-more-attractive-on-the-xbox/
This is a so-you-know-I’m-alive post
I don’t expect my daily doings to be interesting to anyone. I mean, c’mon. Who wants to read ordinary? But since I haven’t posted in forever, I’ll post what I’ve got, which is this.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 12, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/this-is-a-so-you-know-im-alive-post-2/
What needs to happen for Linux to make it on the desktop
I saw an editorial at Freshmeat that argued that there’s actually too much software for Linux. And you know what? It has a point.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 7, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/what-needs-to-happen-for-linux-to-make-it-on-the-desktop/
A RAID array of floppies?
Dan Bowman sent me a link to instructions on setting up FDD RAID on OS X. That’s FDD, not HDD. Floppies.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 5, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/04/a-raid-array-of-floppies/