And God created Darwin
I realize that this has been out on the ‘Net since 1999, apparently, but I just became aware of it. This is a really interesting article, written by Hans Bodlaender, apparently. I think it is a very well-balanced and wise point of view to have, and as a Christian, I agree with it. I’ll not quote the entire thing here, but just the last couple of paragraphs….
KDE, Bible Quiz, and those neato Subway bun toasters
Yesterday was a long day, in which my eldest daughter and her Teen Bible Quiz team came in first place in their third match!! I am SO proud of my team!! As their coach, I was nervous about the match yesterday, and in spots, it was VERY close. But my girls pulled through and were rewarded for all the hard work they’ve put in over the last 5 weeks. =:)
Me and my Logitech MediaPlay mousie and Linux
One word seems to fit… WAHOO!!! A couple of weeks ago, I bought this incredibly cool Logitech MediaPlay mousie. Now, I run Linux by choice, and have for the last 10 years, and most probably will for the next 20 or so. This means that there are certain things you resign yourself to having to figure out yourself.
Malaise and discontent, mouseified
Just wanted to post an update to my rant yesterday about getting cursors working, etc. I was up until 2 in the morning last night, wracking my brains about how to get a simple drop-shadow to work in perlmagick (ImageMagick-perl interface). Very grumpy this morning as a result and feeling in general rather bad. And the worst of it was that I couldn’t figure it out. ImageMagick is probably the most confusing and simultaneously powerful interface that I’ve yet come across. Anyway, at the end of it, instead of trying to get the perl modules to do what I wanted it to, I’ve cheated and used a system() call from the perl script to get the job done. And it works nicely.
Welcome, Mike
Meant to put this up yesterday, but I got distracted, etc….
Malaise and discontent with X and cursors
Okay, how hard can it really be, honestly, to figure out how to get X to change its cursor without having to restart KDE/gnome/etc.? We’re in the stone ages, folks, when the our little user (me, at the moment) has to log out and log in again from his desktop environment to be able to affect changes to his/her mouse cursor. It sure feels like the dreaded Windoze answer of “reboot whenever possible”.
Wibble while you wobble and other updates
How to reclaim 650 Megs of your Fedora-laden hard drive
` sudo rpm -e openoffice.org-i18n ` Good grief.
Merry post-Christmas!
Merry Christmas, all!! =:) I have had a wonderful time with my family for the last several days, and am not at all looking forward to going back to the grind. Among other things, my beautiful kids and bride gave me a XXL Old Navy fleece hoodie (VERY warm and snuggly!!), and the new Tobymac CD (also VERY good and snuggly). OH–also, I got a cool little iced-tea maker!! We’ve probably gone through about 8 pitchers of home-made peach iced tea in the last couple of days. =:)
Linux laptop
I just saw this $498 linux laptop the other day and thought I’d mention it. That’s a pretty danged inexpensive laptop. =:) All that, and without Bill!! =:)