Dec
22
The Future. Now
Tagged with GNOME, science, silly, teleportation, ubuntu | 1 Comment
A while ago I realized that GNOME Robots is not just another silly game. In fact it has some of the most advanced technology currently available:
The only implementation of safe teleportation I’m aware of! Please let me know if there are others.
Dec
18
10 Years of the Blag
Tagged with blogging, history, web, web2.0 | Leave a Comment
Looks like it’s been 10 years today since Jorn Barger first called his site a “weblog”. Of course, his weblog is still around. Collectively, the Web is infinitely lazier than Jorn, so the term shortened to just “blog”. As far as I know, blags are currently written by xkcd geniuses only, so the title of this post has to be taken as an acknowledgement of the great historical continuum.
Dec
7
tales from the offtopic #18: sane errors and pie
Tagged with community, design, HCI, troubleshooting, ubuntu, unix | 2 Comments
Ideally, a Unix program is silent. Only when a program fails for some reason, it must fail spectacularly, providing the user with detailed, helpful error messages. PFA, topyli, riotkittie, and gord all agree.
Dec
2
tales from the offtopic #17: upgrade frenzy
Tagged with competition, geeks, hardware, history, ubuntu | 2 Comments
As we all know, you can use Linux to resurrect and reuse old systems. There are special, lightweight Linux distributions, and even Ubuntu can be very light - it’s just a matter of choosing your desktop components and applications. This installation of tales from the offtopic features hangthedj and wobblywu.
![]()
Some geeks just always want the latest and greatest, no way around that. You also cannot use Linux on a 50s computer: it requires a modern i386 processor and at least 4 megabytes of RAM.




