U.S. Greatly Boosts Tsunami Aid (washingtonpost.com)

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Toll From Tsunami Rises Above 23,000
(washingtonpost.com)

Toll From Tsunami Rises Above 23,000
(washingtonpost.com) 12/28/2004 01:09 AM
washingtonpost.com - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 27 -- Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing a day after a tsunami surged across the region. The death toll rose to more than 23,000, almost half of them on this island nation in the Indian Ocean.

Internet greatly changes world

Internet greatly changes world 12/02/2003 01:47 AM
Washington Times Dec 2 2003 0:36AM ET

Death of the desktop PC has been greatly
exaggerated

Death of the desktop PC has been greatly
exaggerated 06/11/2004 04:10 PM
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Rumors of my death are greatly
exaggerated.

Rumors of my death are greatly
exaggerated. 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

Okay, first off: I've got a massive MacWorld / Borders / Trip to SF and back report to write up. It's coming, and I hope it will be worth the wait. Until I can get it done, there are some wonderful links in the comments for my previous entry, from other bloggers who came to MacWorld, Borders, or both.

My short version? It was awesome. It was everything I'd hoped it would be, and more than I could have ever expected. The drive up was great, and the drive home (without Anne, because she went over to Tahoe to spend the weekend with her friend) was lonely, but enjoyable because I listened to Jay Mohr's book Gasping for Airtime most of the way. It's a interesting story . . . but you have to hear him read it. It's the difference between listening to Dark Side of the Moon and reading the sheet music.

Okay. Enough about the trip report that's coming. Here's the thing that made me fire up this nifty browser called "Epiphany," and write these words: I totally, completely, utterly b0rked my Debian machine before I left for MacWorld. I don't know what I did, exactly, but somehow it completely lost my mouse. modprobe psmouse and modprobe mousedev did nothing, and I couldn't find anything in a single online forum that would help me make my goddamn mouse work again. I tried dpkg-reconfigure gpm. I tried mouseconfig I tried cursing in lots of different languages, and making Faustian bargains with gods I'm pretty sure I just made up . . . I even taught myself how to recompile a linux kernel (the debian way and the other way) . . . but no dice.

Finally, I gave up, and decided to just start over with a clean partition and a new install. So I did mv /home/wil /mnt/hda1/backedup/, did a diff to make sure I didn't miss anything, and burned myself a copy of the latest Debian (Sarge) Network installer.

Oh. My. God. Becky. It was so easy.

Okay. Seriously. Back in the old days of 1999, everyone told me how easy it was to set Red Hat up, but how much cooler Debian was if you could just get past the nightmare install . . . well, this was about as easy an install of anything I've ever done. It was literally a handful of commands, and then a bunch of waiting while it grabbed a ton of packages and set them up.

I'm now sitting here with a honest-to-goodness Debian system, running kernel 2.6.8!

Check it out:

wil@bender:~$ uname -a
Linux bender 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:18:43 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Okay, this is probably not as exciting to anyone else as it is to me . . . but the fact that I got this working, and took all the HAM radio and isdn stuff out of the kernel, and still got it to work . . . it's a pretty big deal to me.

I'm logged into Gnome right now,( which I usually don't use -- I'm a KDE or Enlightenment kind of guy -- but it looks beautiful) and I've got apt installing Firefox and Thunderbird in a terminal, and then I've got to restore some of the backups, but I'm very proud of myself. Until I totally screw something else up, I feel like I can put on my propeller hat and give it a mighty spin. *snort*

I've got an audition tomorrow morning, then I'm working on the audio book of Just A Geek in the afternoon. Check back around Friday for the full SF trip report, and some other cool news.

Oh, man! And if this moment needed to get any better . . . They Might Be Giants just started singing Ana Ng on the radio behind me.

Death By Blog Greatly Exaggerated

Death By Blog Greatly Exaggerated 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Shel Israel considers if blogs are the death of 'Zines. Like David Weinberger, he offered one when it was cutting edge media. Now he asks will blogging kill Confrenza, his paid subscription conference coverage 'Zine. ...Two weeks ago, while attending...

Released Metabase greatly improved

Released Metabase greatly improved 01/16/2003 03:04 AM
Metabase is a popular PHP database abstraction package that lets developers write portable database applications. This means that Metabase makes it possible to write database applications that do not need to be changed to work with different databases. Currently, Metastorage generates the code of persistence layer APIs that is based on Metabase. The latest improvements in Metabase make it possible for Metastorage to generate more compact persistence APIs.

Losses to file sharing greatly
exaggerated

Losses to file sharing greatly
exaggerated 04/10/2005 02:12 PM
The Canadian Recording Industry Association is pushing the Canadian government to eliminate private copying rights by parading out big loss figures. Michael Geist did some digging, and found that exaggeration is the CRIA's specialty.

A replacement script to greatly speed
Clutter

A replacement script to greatly speed
Clutter 05/04/2004 12:25 PM
Unfortunately, Clutter development seems to be stopped. This little app is the greatest iTunes companion, but with a big library (mine contains 30,000 songs), selecting an album to play was very slow. Clutter make extensive ...

Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On
E-voting

Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On
E-voting 08/06/2004 03:25 PM

Greatly increase the animation speed of
sheets

Greatly increase the animation speed of
sheets 05/12/2004 11:14 AM
I'm going to do something I don't normally do, and repeat a previous hint. However, when the original hint was posted, I think the context sort of misled some folks (myself included) about what you could do with the hint. Yo...

Patching can greatly reduce the chances
of Sasser doing damage

Patching can greatly reduce the chances
of Sasser doing damage 05/06/2004 10:03 AM

Death of the Internet greatly
exaggerated | CNET News.com

Death of the Internet greatly
exaggerated | CNET News.com 08/27/2004 03:40 PM
Death of the Internet greatly exaggerated .. the Internet is still functioning

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Rumors of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
demise greatly exaggerated

Rumors of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
demise greatly exaggerated 08/08/2004 08:38 PM
It is important to note that, despite reports elsewhere, this does not mean that the entire line is being canceled. The 3.4 and 3.6GHz LGA775 versions are still in development, and will be released.

New InstallShield X has greatly improved
Windows Mobile device support

New InstallShield X has greatly improved
Windows Mobile device support 05/10/2004 02:48 PM

The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter"

The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter" 03/29/2005 04:27 AM
updated .. Tsunami .. alert

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"The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter""

"The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter"" 03/31/2005 11:53 PM

Red Hat boosts net income in Q3

Red Hat boosts net income in Q3 12/24/2004 12:27 PM
Linux vendor Red Hat increased its third-quarter revenue and profit thanks to an 80% increase in software subscription revenue, the company said.

Oil boosts Canada

Oil boosts Canada 03/31/2005 11:25 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 1 2005 3:28AM GMT

Europe boosts global PC

Europe boosts global PC 07/17/2004 06:27 AM
Techzonez Jul 17 2004 11:09AM GMT

New Windows OS Boosts Security

New Windows OS Boosts Security 09/11/2004 01:11 PM
Wired News Sep 11 2004 4:53PM GMT

Bangladesh law boosts women MPs

Bangladesh law boosts women MPs 05/16/2004 10:47 PM
The Bangladeshi parliament amends its constitution to create 45 women-only seats, despite protests.

X-ray boosts cancer therapy

X-ray boosts cancer therapy 06/18/2004 08:55 PM
X-rays could kick start genes into fighting cancer, research suggests.

Olympics boosts WPP growth

Olympics boosts WPP growth 08/20/2004 04:23 AM
WPP, the world's third largest advertising services group, has reported 15% growth in profits in the first half of the year.

IBM Boosts Linux On eServers

IBM Boosts Linux On eServers 12/12/2003 10:25 AM
IBM's Linux customers can now take advantage of Red Hat's latest software.

Borders Boosts Expectations

Borders Boosts Expectations 08/18/2004 02:46 PM
The retailer reports strong earnings and lifts its outlook.

IDC boosts projection for PC shipments

IDC boosts projection for PC shipments 06/09/2004 05:18 PM

.NET Framework 2.0 Boosts Web Services

.NET Framework 2.0 Boosts Web Services 07/08/2004 05:23 PM
Microsoft solicits, responds to, developer feedback in new release.

GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts

GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts 01/10/2004 02:14 PM
Balinares writes "Great bunch of news on the Linux desktop unification front. After the unification of GTK and Qt themes that Slashdot already reported on, it ...

Tech Boosts the Fraudsters

Tech Boosts the Fraudsters 09/11/2004 05:36 AM
Controversy over the veracity of recently released Bush National Guard memos has put the spotlight on digital forgery. These days, computers make document fakery easier -- and harder to detect -- than ever before. By Randy Dotinga.

NetScreen boosts IDP capabilities

NetScreen boosts IDP capabilities 04/14/2004 03:55 PM
Computerworld Singapore Apr 14 2004 7:25PM GMT

Google boosts IPO size

Google boosts IPO size 07/27/2004 06:17 AM
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Defection boosts Lib Dems

Defection boosts Lib Dems 04/05/2005 09:14 AM
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy sees his election campaign boosted as a Labour candidate defects.

3G, VoIP Boosts Lucent

3G, VoIP Boosts Lucent 07/21/2004 12:58 PM
Internet News Jul 21 2004 4:18PM GMT

Outlook Boosts Autodesk

Outlook Boosts Autodesk 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
TheStreet.com Apr 6 2005 3:16PM GMT

Qwest Boosts Bid for MCI to $8.94
Billion

Qwest Boosts Bid for MCI to $8.94
Billion 04/01/2005 05:36 PM
Red Nova Apr 1 2005 8:48PM GMT

SQL Server getting security boosts

SQL Server getting security boosts 05/25/2004 08:42 AM
Microsoft at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego on Tuesday will tout plans to add data encryption to its SQL Server database and seek federal government security certification for the platform as well.

AT&T deal boosts DoCoMo

AT&T deal boosts DoCoMo 02/19/2004 12:03 AM
This Is Money Feb 19 2004 4:40AM GMT

Retooling boosts Mac Office value

Retooling boosts Mac Office value 05/22/2004 11:19 AM
Los Angeles Times May 22 2004 2:55PM GMT

Ad Spending Boosts Adobe

Ad Spending Boosts Adobe 04/10/2005 03:29 AM
Forbes Apr 10 2005 6:51AM GMT
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