Month: August 2003

I came across this when checking an archive entry on Illiad’s User Friendly. For those that don’t know, its a cartoon set in an ISP. They offer subscriptions which remove the ads, and periodically when you’re browsing the archive, you’ll get a “nag” cartoon, asking you to subscribe. This is one: www.userfriendly.org I think I’ll… Continue reading The best subscription “invite” ever

I’m going to be rich! Apparently there’s a reward for the design of a cooling system for London’s tube network: …Subterranean heat reached 52 degrees Celsius [on the tube], with humidity factored in. Ken Livingstone, London’s mayor, has promised a reward of £100,000 ($160,000) to anyone who invents an air-conditioning system that will work on… Continue reading 100,000 please Mr Livingstone

Grrr. I recently added a new drive to my machine – a 120Gb IBM/Hitachi 180GXP. I can’t say I’d recommend buying one as it makes a high-pitched whine whenever you’re not accessing data from it (??), but I gave up sending them back and decided to deal with it. Yeah, I know its a cop… Continue reading Experimenting with Linux, part 4

The final options are both based on Mandrake 9.1. I’ve been a fan of Mandrake for a while now – I’d heard it was a friendly distro and given it a try at Mandrake 8.0, after buying Redhat7 & discovering it didn’t want to play with my hardware without significant pushing and shoving. Mandrake was… Continue reading Experimenting with Linux, part 3

Searching for Wile E. Coyote on Google images (don’t ask) and I came across a picture of a RoadRunner-esque rock formation. This page has links to a small collection of photographs across America, some of which are very good. Here’s a sample: I do hope the author/photographer (EC Nelson, I presume) doesn’t mind me using… Continue reading Pictures of America