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Archive for June, 2007

iSheep

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Tomorrow the lunacy starts with plenty of idiots waiting all night to hand over $500+ to Apple for a freaking phone. In fact this moron has already been on line for a couple of days at the NYC Apple store:

Why don’t these simpletons just pull their pants down around their ankles and get it over […]

USA 2 Mexico 1 - The Universe is still in Balance

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The United States Men’s soccer team continue their dominance of the “superior” Mexican team:

This was the final of the Gold Cup, which is the soccer championship for CONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean). The game could of easily wound of 3-1 or 4-1 as the U.S. hit the post twice after going up […]

Old school Amiga games on Linux

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I grew up learning about computers by using Commodore machines. The last one I owned was an Amiga. I found out that you can run old Amiga games in Linux through an emulator called E-UAE. You can get an Ubuntu package here and a bootloader image here. Once you have that you need to get […]

My review of Fedora 7

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I saw that Fedora 7 is out and wanted to check it out as soon as possible. I downloaded it via bittorrent and installed it on my test box. I like the general direction the project has been going for some time even though it has had some issues (most notably with it’s package managers […]

Gaming on Linux is pretty damn good

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

To hell with the naysayers who complain that gaming on Linux sucks. It’s simply not true. I found a pretty good website called GetDeb that has packages available for all sorts of applications for Ubuntu based distros that might not be in the main repositories. A whole bunch of games are available so I went […]

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