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Death of the desktop PC has been greatly
exaggerated

Death of the desktop PC has been greatly
exaggerated 06/11/2004 04:10 PM
SABC Jun 11 2004 7:58PM GMT

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 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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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.

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.

Rumours of Tape's death exaggerated

Rumours of Tape's death exaggerated 07/08/2004 03:45 AM
It's a backup thing. We wouldn't understand

The Blog of Death

The Blog of Death 05/21/2004 03:50 AM
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Internet greatly changes world

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

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

U.S. Greatly Boosts Tsunami Aid
(washingtonpost.com) 12/31/2004 10:45 PM
washingtonpost.com - JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 31 -- President Bush on Friday increased the U.S. financial contribution for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami to $350 million, 10 times the previous pledge toward the emergency effort to funnel food, water and medicine to about 5 million people in South Asia and parts of Africa.

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.

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 ...

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...

Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On
E-voting

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

Intego Exaggerated the Trojan

Intego Exaggerated the Trojan 04/09/2004 06:47 PM
An article over at Wired states that Intego has blown this whole Trojan problem out of proportion. According to experts, The Trojan (mentioned here and here) "...isn't a working piece of malicious code and can't easily be spread to other computers. Instead, it is a demonstration of a possible threat." In response, Intego has apparently changed their story from that of attacking an imminent threat to preparing for a future threat.

"It is a benign proof of concept that was posted to a newsgroup. It isn't in the wild, and can't be spread in the wild. It's a non-issue." ~ Dave Schroeder

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Insert Exaggerated Title Here

Insert Exaggerated Title Here 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Someone at some blog posts something so good I have to link to it. I link to it.

Internet dangers exaggerated

Internet dangers exaggerated 06/09/2004 08:52 AM
Web-User Jun 9 2004 1:11PM GMT

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

Iraq Kidnap Reports May Be Exaggerated
(AP)

Iraq Kidnap Reports May Be Exaggerated
(AP) 04/17/2005 08:54 PM
AP - Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops had the town of Madain surrounded Sunday after reports of Sunni militant kidnappings of as many as 100 Shiite residents, but there were growing indications the incident had been grossly exaggerated, perhaps an outgrowth of a tribal dispute or political maneuvering.

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

Immediacy of Mac OS X Trojan horse
threat exaggerated

Immediacy of Mac OS X Trojan horse
threat exaggerated 04/11/2004 09:27 AM
Intego's security annoucement about the viability of a Trojan horse for Mac OS X has turned out to be a case of FUD.

Mac OS X Trojan Horse claims exaggerated
- experts

Mac OS X Trojan Horse claims exaggerated
- experts 04/12/2004 11:24 PM
Security experts and Mac programmers have slammed Intego for exaggerating the threat of what the company called the first Trojan Horse for Mac OS X...

Medical Adviser for Baseball Exaggerated
His Credentials

Medical Adviser for Baseball Exaggerated
His Credentials 03/29/2005 10:41 PM
Dr. Elliot J. Pellman, the medical adviser for Major League Baseball, has exaggerated his educational and professional credentials.

U.S. Intelligence Exaggerated Iraqi
Weapons Reports (Reuters)

U.S. Intelligence Exaggerated Iraqi
Weapons Reports (Reuters) 07/09/2004 01:41 PM
Reuters - U.S. intelligence agencies overstated the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, relied on dubious sources and ignored contrary evidence in the run-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a Senate committee reported on Friday.

Iraq Hostage Stand-Off Dismissed as
Exaggerated (Reuters)

Iraq Hostage Stand-Off Dismissed as
Exaggerated (Reuters) 04/18/2005 04:55 AM
Reuters - Iraqi forces searched a town near Baghdad Monday for evidence of dozens of Shi'ites said to have been kidnapped by Sunni gunmen, amid suggestions the claim was exaggerated for political ends.

Anti-Virus Firm Admits MyDoom Impact
Exaggerated

Anti-Virus Firm Admits MyDoom Impact
Exaggerated 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Last week we noted that anti-virus companies were putting out press releases including ridicul ously high estimates for the amount of "damages" done by the myDoom virus - and refusing to give any info to back up the claims. Now, however, in a surprising move, another anti-virus firm, TruSecure is admitting that many exaggerated the impact of the virus, which they say really wasn't that big of a deal. They still say that the virus did plenty of damage, but suggest that the reactions from many overstated how much damage was really done.

Wondering why the press doesn't focus on
the good stuff in Iraq? According to
Newsweek, most of it is exaggerated

Wondering why the press doesn't focus on
the good stuff in Iraq? According to
Newsweek, most of it is exaggerated 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
The $87 Billion Money Pit

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Taken together, the facts in the report
show that virtually every major claim
President George W. Bush used to justify
the invasion of Iraq was either wrong or
exaggerated

Taken together, the facts in the report
show that virtually every major claim
President George W. Bush used to justify
the invasion of Iraq was either wrong or
exaggerated 07/12/2004 02:23 AM
'The Dots Never Existed'

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Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g

Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
This is a new "trend" that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you, some of the questions that...

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
0-Click Shopping(tm), using Amazon's Web Services .. Automatic wishlist purchases with Amazon's API .. Make your own wishes come true, once

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Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g)

Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g) 08/20/2004 06:41 AM
ysearchblog commentators .. background information .. some background info .. weitere Details .. Jeremy Z ..

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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year!

Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year! 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing pal Scott Beale informs us that our blog just won Group Weblog of the Year at the Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in their honor: check 'em all out. On behalf of my blog-mates Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager" John Battelle; our sysadmin par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to SXSW in person to accept the award, but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at ETCON ( all five of us will be in the same place for the first time). Boing Boing sprouted online a little over five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come. Link

Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley sez, "Not only did BB win best group ‘blog, it won “blog of the year/best weblog overall” – congratulations!" For those keeping track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity.

Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death

Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death 09/25/2004 09:08 PM

The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often

The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often 12/30/2003 01:34 AM
http://www.blogherald.com/ Yup, that's it.......news about......blogs.......

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g.

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g. 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up with your blog .. Dear Blogger Letter .. David Weinberger

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Joho the Blog: Video bl0g

Joho the Blog: Video bl0g 08/01/2004 05:01 PM
video blog .. vlog

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Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search

Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search 05/11/2004 09:24 AM
Yahoo! May 11 2004 2:11PM GMT

" Cerveja Blog!! O Blog que desce
red... Cerveja"

" Cerveja Blog!! O Blog que desce
red... Cerveja" 01/03/2005 10:35 AM

Web Zen: Zen of Death

Web Zen: Zen of Death 08/31/2004 01:55 PM
Xeni Jardin: streatham cemetary
death masks
blog of death
celebrity death beeper
dead or alive
who's alive who's dead
a strange ghost
ready teddy death
death clock
Image: The death mask of English poet John Keats. web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).

Being towards death

Being towards death 06/25/2004 10:37 AM
Being towards death Hanan Cohen intertwines the mortality of blogs with our own mortality: We think that we will live forever. We think that the files we have stored on machines powered by electricity will also live forever. Our files have no other purpose than to be online. We think that if our files are not available to the web, they are dead. In a way, thinking about the death of our files is like thinking about our own death. Meanwhile, over at Ereignis, the English-language Heidegger site, there's a link to Christopher Ellis' article that argues that Heidegger's ideas...
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