Archive for October 2005
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Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on.
I have utterly no time to spend on this at the moment, but here’s a quick link before I dash off - manybooks.net. They offer a huge collection of eBooks in various formats for free - many are repackaged from Project Gutenberg, but in more usable formats.
There’s nothing like the feel of an actual [...]
If a technological feat is possible, man will do it. Almost as if it’s wired into the core of our being.
(bonus points for catching the title reference.)
I’m seriously impressed by SoulPad, an effort by IBM Research to essentially make your computer (mostly) hardware independent.
Basically, it’s like this: You have a portable storage device, say a USB-connected drive. Plug it in to a computer, boot from it, and your computer is in front of [...]
Opera is free!
Still getting some of the home computing resources back into place after Operation: Nachos (the escape from Rita). The Linux server, drteeth, is in place but not powered on - haven’t put time into working on any of the projects on that machine yet. The Windows PC, floyd, is limping along. [...]
