December 23rd, 2005
While I like my Thinkpad, I dislike the fan noise that it makes. On Slackware you literally have to turn on some music to drown out the constant whirr of the fan. The GPU itself is a Mobility Radeon 7500, but unfortunately crappy ATi haven’t bothered to release a Linux driver that caters for it […]
December 18th, 2005
Being a human is about ignoring and abstracting things. Give a computer an endless task and it will continue running it for all time. Give a human an endless task and it will ignore it.
–Me, right now, thinking.
December 14th, 2005
It’s like freedom, baby, down with capitalism–yeah!
Ergh, I wonder how long I can flog those jokes…
There’s nothing extra special about the software, it’s really all about how it’s made. Linux itself is just a kernel; something that provides a base for other programs to access hardware.
The Linux kernel was made by Linus Torvalds while he […]