Oct 10 2007

Daily Kos: Five Hours

Category: Linux,Things That Get Me Mad,Your Rights - Dwindling — erm @ 10:46 am

Daily Kos: Five Hours

This is just plane stupid.
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Jul 20 2007

How to get zork I, zork II, and zork III running in linux

Category: Insanity,Linux,Linux,Tech,Things that make me happy,Weird — erm @ 1:27 pm

Well your first step is to download the files.
Infocom – Zork Downloads you’ll then need to download zork1.zip, zork2.zip or zork3.zip from that page.  – Just click the titles to download. – Continue reading “How to get zork I, zork II, and zork III running in linux”

Mar 22 2007

E-043 Vista – Arrogance & Stupidity

Category: Insanity,Linux,Linux,Makes you think ...,Malware,Microsoft,Tech,Things That Get Me Mad,Things that make me happy,Your Rights - Dwindling — erm @ 6:18 am

Are you thinking about upgrading to Vista?

E-043 Vista – Arrogance & Stupidity
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Feb 19 2007

How to become a hacker

Category: Life Stories,Linux,Makes you think ... — erm @ 9:53 pm

I was reading How to become a hacker

It brought back a few memories.
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Aug 10 2006

Pass DISPLAY when using su and not -p

Category: Insanity,Life Stories,Linux,Linux,Tech,Things That Get Me Mad,Things that make me happy — erm @ 7:10 am

I was aggravated. I recently switched distros, and by default su didn’t pass the DISPLAY variable, and when I used su -p it didn’t cd to their $HOME it cd to my home, the ‘parent’ shell’s home.

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Jun 04 2006

Windows Vista vs. Linux: Why Vista Might Lose the Battle – Tech News – Playfuls.com – Science & Technology

Category: Linux,Microsoft,Tech — erm @ 11:57 pm

I don’t know how to take these things. When I first got into linux it was because of an article like this. I figured it’s better to learn about the future now. Besides … it was free. Don’t get me wrong I love linux, but I just don’t see Microsoft loosing.
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