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Slackware 11

It’s coming soon…

At last, an official 2.6 Slackware kernel.

Sad news from Microsoft

The next version of the Windows desktop to emulate the Mac desktop is called Vista. It was due for release this year but has been delayed until 2007 as M$ try to make the OS secure.

Linux is here now and it’s more secure than anything Microsoft could conjure up.

He’s saying to her, “I [...]

The Darwin fish

I had heard of the battle of the bumper stickers in the US, where rationalists, scientists, humanists, atheists and other sensible right thinking people had become so outraged at the proliferation of christian ICTHUS fish symbols on the bumpers of the gullable, that they evented their own fish symbol. I had not seen one until [...]

Continued Siskin frenzy

They may be small but they sure can eat! There is much Siskin frenzy each day, proof of which is this shot of his and her Siskins on the feeder of delight – that’s her on the left.

Notice also, how the magnetic rays of the magic sunflower seeds repel both birds, so that only [...]

Weather

As I walked into work on Friday morning, it was freezing. The rain was the finest drizzle that an easterly wind could whip up and scatter along The Shore. The water of Leith while not quite having “white horses” prancing on the crests of its waves, did have the corrugated patterns etched by strong gusts [...]

Did you know…

I used to work for the CPS…

Uptime update

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PSU

I had a very dodgy moment on Sunday.

I had finished watching TV and thought I would go to bed and use my bedroom computer, a lovely Compaq Evo D510 SFF for a bit of poker or browsing before I went to sleep. As the Evo runs Slackware Linux, it’s always on and ready to [...]