Monthly Archives: December 2007
Linux Rules
From Slashot:“Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon’s ‘best of’ list for 2007, according BusinessWire.com for 28 December 2007. Best selling computer? The Nokia Internet Tablet PC, running Linux. Best reviewed computer? The Apple MacBook Pro notebook PC. Most wished for computer? Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7-inch PC mobile Internet device, which comes with Xandros Linux pre-installed. And last, but not least, the most frequently gifted computer: The Apple MacBook notebook PC.”wOOt!!!
Rock Likely to Hit Mars, NOT
The NEAR project … they are the ones that keep track of objects in space that might hit us … now predicts that the asteroid earlier reported to be on its way to Mars will likely miss the Red Planet. Have a look: Continue reading Rock Likely to Hit Mars, NOT
I told you so … open source is better.
You can’t use closed source proprietary software such as Mathematica for research because that would cause there to be a Black Box in your Research Methodology?But you didn’t listen.Now, Miquel Pais (via the Quantum Pontiff) reports a bug in Mathematica that can’t be understood because you can’t look under the hood.This is a disaster. But not an unexpected disaster.You must now all switch to Open Source software for your research purposes. I’m not kidding. Get on that right away.That is all.
Netscape is dead. Long live Netscape.
Netscape was the first browser. Then came along Internet Explorer, and Microsoft did all sorts of evil things to Netscape to run it out of existence. But it didn’t work. Netscape continued to exist, and along the way, AOL acquired Netscape as a commercial product, and Mozilla branched off of Netscape as an Open Source product. Mozilla gave birth to Firefox and Swiftfox, and today, Firefox or some form of it rules. Open Source Wins.Today, AOL has announced that it will no longer develop Netscape.We can get all weepy and worried about this event, but is is actually incredibly good news. Netscape ushered in, facilitated, caused, whatever adjective you like, both Internet Browsing (which is still there) and the Mozilla Open Source project, which is still there. The fact that the commercial fork of this long and intense effort is the part that is being retired is the best possible outcome.The browser is dead. Long live the browser.
Ron Paul is Out of the Running
According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.
My Linux Calendar
On steroids…. Continue reading My Linux Calendar
I and the Bird #65
Compare and contrast.
These two videos are part of a “year in review post” that I’m including in my Review of the Year in Review Posts. My review will be supplied at the end of the year, like it should be. But, I thought you might enjoy seeing these videos sooner. Continue reading Compare and contrast.
Burning Bush Home
President Bush’s boyhood home was severely damaged by a fire.Investigators in Odessa now believe an arsonist is to blame.
Faith Based Science Editorial
Visitors to the Institute for Creation Research Web page can quickly deduce that the organization, founded in California and recently transplanted to Dallas, is a Christian group dedicated to spreading the doctrine of divine creation of the world and challenging the teaching of evolution as fact in public schools.An advisory committee to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recommends that the group be allowed to confer master’s degrees in science education for teacher candidates. This indefensible action would be the equivalent of allowing an institute of faith-healers to issue advanced medical degrees. …
Read the rest here…Texas Redeems Itself!Thanks, Tex, for the tip!
New Open Access Journal
The AIR is now available on line as an open access journal. This paragon of scientific publishing has been central in shaping our view of the world for a long time, and it is now finally available to all to enjoy, lean from, and …. Continue reading New Open Access Journal
I’m going to do something that your stupid, little minds aren’t going to be able to comprehend
… Or so intoned the Janesville, Wisconsin student during show and tell just before he started ripping his Bible to shreds.
The school responded to this as a “safety matter.”
Continue reading I’m going to do something that your stupid, little minds aren’t going to be able to comprehend
Huckabee is proving to be an incredible moron.
Possibly even exceeding Ron Paul in his moronosity. Most recently, he has shown himself clueless in matters of foreign policy.
People who questioned my view of foreign policy probably need go back and read the speech that I delivered back in Washington in September. …[where I talk about] those eastern borders near Afghanistan to be able go after the terrorists….
Uffda… Continue reading Huckabee is proving to be an incredible moron.
Don’t try this at home.
Well, actually, you are supposed to try this at home. I was wondering what I was going to do with that extra 150 ohm resister I had laying around…
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