A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
After the study dodging^Wevading [yeah, that's the word I should have chosen, but I was not in a mood to get my English completely correct ;)] of last Monday, there was the exam on Tuesday. Some disaster there. Ah well, at least I wasn't the only one, but it still …
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Well over 400 [some 420 I thought] packages updated/installed, counting up to 200+MB, my poor old laptop sweating to get all installed. Took quite some time [a lot longer then download time] and some fiddling around with packages, but it's done. Then configged some things; will tweak the …
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Why the hell does it have to take an additional 83MB to upgrade to latest sid :/ Of course there's a lot of new features in the included Gnome programs, but still... 83MB :/
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Yay, finally on tracks with aquamorph again. Last update was somewhere September last year... So now 351 packages are waiting to be updated =)
Lots have changed in the meantime, so I hope it'll still boot nicely when I've found some time to actually make it an iso. Ah well, we'll …
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Lars Wirzenius from Planet Debian makes a good point about valid HTML. He notices that even spammers mostly use validating HTML. So why can't a lot of people on the web? It certainly isn't that difficult, and it says something about the care for your readers/customers when someone or …
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I did the Geektest, which tests what level of geekiness you posess. From totally non-geek, to geek, to nerd. So geek is actually a better thing then nerd :)
I got a score of 42%:
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with …
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Heh, in a mood to revalidate my xhtml1.1 source against the W3 validator, I came across the Google url I posted recently [about calculating weird stuff]. It contains several ampersands, which I should have converted to the html encoded version, &. Damn XML :)
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The Art of "Effective" B---------logging is a fictional conversation between the protagonist and a skeptic, attempting to explain what a blog is, and why it's useful. Various points are made, but the skeptic doesn't seem to understand until the protagonist enthuses, "It is like meditation that comes thru karma."
"Ah …
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OK, was browsing some hardware sites when an advertisement came along that detected my OS and offered me to test my system [hohum...]. I *had* to try it out, because I already guessed what the outcome would be:
WHAT??? They ask $40 for this piece of junk …
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