http://kingsmountain.com/blog =JeffH's musings on Music, Fatherhood, Life, Technology, and other Endurance Sports... Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:46:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve been playing around with FireFox 3.0 (FF3, FFox 3) for a while now, using both pre-compiled releases and compiling my own. Besides FF3 being noticeably faster than FF2, the UI changes are subtle for the most part, so one really has to poke around in order to see ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/02/14/a-deep-look-into-firefox-3-beta-3/ We participated in the OLPC Foundation’s “Give 1, Get 1″ (G1G1) program while it was open this last fall (although it was over-subscribed and we have yet to receive our units), BUT! But: I just received an update from OLPC and it included a link to a page they recently ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/31/olpc-xo-1s-from-the-give-1-get-1-program-arrive-in-mongolia/ So as is fairly explicit in a couple of prior posts, I’ve pretty much quit using Microsoft Windows on my personal machine, and am running (K)ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” natively on it. I’ve been doing this for about 9 months now and haven’t looked back. When I mentioned to a ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/30/i-done-left-los-windows/ I was browsing in the newsstand section at my local Barnes & Noble recently, and noticed a bright red & white magazine with “Ubuntu 7.10 + edubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu” across its cover. Upon reading further I noticed it contains two bootable DVDs, one with the aforementioned four distributions in 32-bit, ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/30/ubuntu-710-dvds-available-at-barnes-noble-and-borders/ I attended this talk entitled “Inventing Public Key Cryptography: A Fool’s Errand: Act 2” yesterday at Stanford’s CS department. It was given by Martin Hellman, one of the inventors of public key cryptography, and also a participant in the Beyond War effort in the 1980’s, which has recently ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/30/a-fools-errand-i-dont-think-so-beyond-war/ Ohmigawds, I haven’t blogged here for almost a year. Yikes! Guess I’ve been too busy with “work” and “life“. Apologies dear readers (mebbe two of you out there?). Anyway, I hacked up my personal and work computer environment in several ways over the last almost-year. The most obvious hack to me ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/21/my-new-keyboard/ ..given an unfortunate current event… God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule http://www.theonion.com/content/node/2815 ..the now so-called.. Virginia Tech massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shootings sigh. See also.. Boing Boing on VT shootings/massacre http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/18/va_tech_shootings_sm.html http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2007/04/18/perhaps-appropriate-commentary/ So they, Primus, may be supposedly tired of their fans yelling “Primus sucks!”, but the fans aren’t — well the ones at the show Tue 5-Dec-2006 at San Jose Civic Auditorium weren’t. In fact, during several extended low-key “mumbling” jam sections, a few in the audience got way ticked off ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2006/12/20/review-primus-still-sux/ Ok, Eve, here u go… I’m actually a really laid-back, low-key, relaxed, even lazy, kind of guy. I’m so old, I had a pet dinosaur when I was ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2006/12/20/eve-made-me-do-it-too-five-things/ A colleague sent me this link… http://www.bille.nu/cat/ ..which I’m calling “Rockin’ Katz” since the page’s admin didn’t entitle it. It’s a scream, especially if yer into various genres of music. There don’t appear to be a whole lotta links to the above page (yet). Though when discussing the page with another colleague ... http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2006/11/11/rockin-katz/