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29.7.05

This Week

So I was in Princeton, NJ this week. My dad had some lectures on SUSY (Super Symmetry) so we came for a week. I met up with a close friend of mine from last year, and met with him every day and had fun. This is what we did: Monday: Pool Tuesday: Library Wednesday: Pool Thurday: Nothing Friday: Kayaking ’Twas fun :D I really hope we can meet again :D Now that reminds me of Vera by Pink Floyd from The Wall:

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that We would meet again Some sunny day? Vera! Vera! What has become of you? Does anybody else here Feel the way I do?

Not that most of it applies :D

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At 14/10/05 13:52, Anonymous saidâ¦: The kayaking was fun. You grew.

The not so anonymous,
Benjamin

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20.7.05

Favourite Song of the Week - Echoes by Pink Floyd from Meddle

This week, I downloaded Pink Floyd’s Meddle, an album from 1971, which is a good example of the Psychedelic to Progressive Rock genre change. Well, I can’t justify that, but it’s a mix of the two. And my favourite song comes from that album, which is Echoes. It is a splendid blend of Space and Water, with lyrics about the sea and music like the skies. You can hear gulls chirping and whales roaring in a section, and even The Phantom of the Opera's famous 10-note sequence that goes: (up) dun dun dun dun dun… (back down) dun dun dun dun dun… and so on. Seems like Andrew Lloyd Webber stole it from Pink Floyd (Meddle is from 1971 while The Phantom of the Opera is from 1986). Well, I hope you at least listen to the sample and judge whether Echoes is a good song or not. Echoes on iTMS Echoes Lyrics

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At 21/07/05 20:26, katherine saidâ¦: Hmm...I must hear this part with Phantom of the Opera in it. Although I'm not willing to buy $10 worth of songs just to hear it. Any chance you can upload a 23+ minute song somehow? (compress it!)
At 26/07/05 11:25, katherine saidâ¦: This is totally unrelated to your blog entry but I thought you might think it was funny, I heard it on runehq.com

"Computers are like air conditioners. Once you open the Windows, they don't work."
At 16/08/05 14:18, Snarfer saidâ¦: That would work great for Zaudragon and my blog..
At 25/10/05 10:49, Anonymous saidâ¦: Hi ,
I just downloaded the same album. My first idea has been to type in the words Phatom and Meddle in Google....
What more should I say

Rob
At 30/05/06 15:01, Anonymous saidâ¦: D. bowie joined members of pink floyd on stage to perform 2 songs monday night! see the video, pictures and review at http://www.outsidethewall.net

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17.7.05

Ubuntu (Gnome) > Kubuntu (KDE)

Remember my post from yesterday? That’s right, I tried it again today. But this time, I used Ubuntu, and not Kubuntu. GNOME is a lot more stable and I like it :D Even if it isn’t as purty it’s better :P Now I wonder if I’ll grab Yellow Dog instead…

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At 17/07/05 16:02, Anonymous saidâ¦: If you're going to use linux on a PPC, use either Fedora Core compiled for PPC, Debian, or Gentoo. Gentoo is probably the most fun :). Yellow Dog is ... not so great.
At 18/07/05 20:41, Snarfer saidâ¦: Yellow Dog costs $60 for the CD installers and source CDs (irony..!), so look around on linux.com.
At 19/07/05 08:09, Augie Fackler saidâ¦: Yellow dog CDs are available for free, you just have to wait (IIRC) a month.
Seriously, why linux on a Mac?
At 19/07/05 18:08, Anonymous saidâ¦: Here's some reasons:
1. 13,000 free apps just a few clicks (or commands) away.
2. The fact that it is much, much more hacker friendly than OS X. By this I mean you can do whatever the eff you want. If you decide you dislike your windows manager, go write another one. Since essentially Linux itself is just the kernel as maintained by Torvolds and his buddies, the rest of what is considered Linux is just added on programs that you can mess around with. You could theoretically start from the bare metal and write everything up from drivers to a GUI. And, once again, there are literally thousands of programs, free, and easy to obtain. While OS X's fink and Gentoo for OS X work in a limited sense, it pales in comparison to the elegance of apt-get or portage.
4. Linux (especially Gentoo) is very fast. Mac's, while fast, are renound for not being "teh snappy."
5. It's more fun when things can go wrong and you can hose your system easily.
Augie, try reading this:
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

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16.7.05

Linux?

Got back from Aspen late last night. And today I had an adventure. I had a Kubuntu .iso on my HD, burned it on my CD-RW, and launched Kubuntu, the Linux distro I used. Voilá! It worked. And it was stable! I was celebrating on IRC when… OH NOOOES! Konqueror crashed. I clicked on the "Crash Reporter" instance in the "minimize-bar"-ish-thingy-that-you-normally-see-in-Windows and BOOM! KDE crashed. And I couldn’t do anything. So, I restarted my computer. KERNEL PANIC! Yes, after trying to boot Mac OS X, I got a Kernel Panic. Afterwards, I tried many methods of fixing it. Finally, I sit here now, in front of my Mac OS X booted computer, all happy and typing away… I hope when I reboot this won’t happen…

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5.7.05

EyeBrowse 0.2

EyeBrowse 0.2 has only a few changes, but looks better so I gave it a new version number! CHANGES

Added toolbar icons and application icon: Sorry MacCuajo, I made my own icons, but I did use your application icon!
Added some more ad blocking sites.
Changed layout a little.
Decreased default font size.

No tabs or selective image loading yet; will come eventually when I have more time… Download Eyebrowse Download Source

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At 05/07/05 13:24, Anonymous saidâ¦: How do you do tabs with WebKit?
At 05/07/05 16:59, Newtylicious saidâ¦: FYI: The name Eyebrowse is taken....

http://www.eyebrowse.co.uk/