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Comment Re:If they removed the Vogons who made the movie.. (Score 1) 502

by planarian1 on Thursday May 05, 2005 @01:56AM (#12438911) Attached to: Hitchhikers Guide Movie Might Become a Trilogy

or anything about the babelfish

scratch that -- i saw it again today and remembered that they briefly did mention what the babelfish was all about.. d'oh. :P

Journal Journal: it is said..

Journal by planarian1 on Saturday July 31, 2004 @06:06PM

"You read between 50 - 100 words per minute. Basic reading ability. (The average rate is between 200 - 250 words per minute.) It is assumed that you did not skim the words nor fail to understand the meaning of what was read."
(..courtesey: mindbluff.com)

Journal Journal: O'Reilly books 1

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Saturday July 31, 2004 @05:16PM

I have greater than 5 O'Reilly books now. I study the semiotics of the computer press.

Journal Journal: My new laptop runs WinXP

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Saturday July 31, 2004 @05:13PM

Last September I bought a refurbised IBM thinkpad T30. I have been using it as a school work machine for a year now. I have been mostly using Open Office. I also have xemacs installed and R and ESS. I also have gcc installed and a code editor. I also have some other freeware or GPL open source software on it. It may not be running Linux but it is fairly open source.

Journal Journal: My computer log blog

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Saturday July 31, 2004 @05:09PM

I have been keeping a blog for one year now on my computer hobby. It is at http://www.crystalcomputing.blogspot.com/.

Journal Journal: so this is what it's like living under a rock..

Journal by planarian1 on Saturday July 31, 2004 @02:22PM

...buried beneath several layers of magma and deep into the sexi underparts of the earth's core.. ;)

Journal Journal: new eMac was choice from others

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @04:03AM

I could have chosen most any new Mac but the eMac gave me a new 17" screen and DVD playing. It also let me use OpenOSX software but most of that stuff was a bomb I should have gone with fink commander. Oh well I have gimp now plus for a few bucks got older adobe software to run in system 9. A free printer also helps me stay with the ever spinning wheel of technology.

Journal Journal: Toshiba 420CDT Linux install complete

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @04:00AM

I was able to install Red Hat 6.2(zoot) on my laptop. I used a second standard 810 MB hard drive. I did this end of May. Now by June 11th I have used the RHPM system to install netscape and I have configured the printer I have have an Epson 440. Next I want to upgrade the gedit.

Journal Journal: Got free C-64

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Thursday December 26, 2002 @11:44PM

I got a free C-64 from a Greg through the ott.forsale.computing newsgroup. It seems to work. The monitor has a green hue. He was a nice person because I offered him 50$ for it and then he just gave it to me from free. Eric and I watched some of Hot Type at his place and joked a lot on the ride to pick up the C-64.

Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 307

by Pierre Anoid on Thursday December 26, 2002 @03:42AM (#4959569) Attached to: Christmas in 2050

Exactly it always begins with "a robot will do the work". Well then how will yours truly and everyone else get money for work if it is all being done by robots. Labour losses through technological unemployment are hurting all nations of the world. But then I picked up this idea from various authors including in Riffkins The end of work. Lets get with it as programmers... we must think of the guy who needs work not eliminating jobs by auto-mation. Give us a break we can just as easily watch cop shows on TV, then consuming star trek and working with computers.

Journal Journal: sales over holidays

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Thursday December 26, 2002 @03:25AM

Maybe selling some excess hardware. Making offers to usenet users of ott.forsale.computing.

Journal Journal: E-bay Holiday shopping

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Thursday December 26, 2002 @03:23AM

I bought a Moog Song Producer on ebay.ca for the commador 64. Now I am getting offers from people selling their C-64's. I am offering 50$ CND for computer, monitor and disk drive. These guys also have software. I would like the educational software too.

I am bidding on some duron case stickers.

Journal Journal: Lambda cluster is up and running but what's it for?

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Tuesday December 24, 2002 @05:29AM

well I got my cluster to work now but no users besides myself and no applications. It is net connected now but no pppoe software yet. really this is just a because it is there kind of status symbol thing.

Journal Journal: Security Smart cards kinda scary about no access possibility

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Tuesday December 24, 2002 @05:26AM

I got these IBM smart card readers from www.ebay.ca. I installed one finally after two tries. But silly me I set up the screen saver. These are security smart cards so I couldn't leave a security screen saver on the log in. My Dungeon Master would have been so pissed off. The laptop of mine he uses is already slow enough to boot up. If he actually had to log in it would take for ever to get our game going. Computer security is kind of scary vs. convieniance.

Journal Journal: what I use in the way of Corel stuff.

Journal by Pierre Anoid on Thursday November 28, 2002 @01:20AM

I am not running Corel Linux anymore. I do use Corel Flow. I have never been into Corel Graphics. Their headquaters is within biking distance of me.

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