Borat 0
Sexy time. Big up to Lil' Jonny for the link.
Archive for September, 2004
Java on Debian 0
I came across a really good article showing how to install Sun's Java SDK on computers running the Debian operating system.
Previously I'd dumped Java into a system without really doing it the 'Debian Way' and this tutorial covers making pseudo packages for Sun's version. Very cool.
Ignite Your Mind <insert guitar riff here> 5
I got another SGI Indy from an IRC mate over the weekend, and it came with an external CD-ROM and a set of IRIX 6.5 CDs. Whoo hoo!
It's a pretty low spec machine (100MHz processor; the slowest that Indys came with) but this one has a working startup sound. It's a cool little tune that's stored in hardware. It must be in the PROM.
In my search for the WAV file sample, I came across a bunch of SGI promotional songs that were used in the late 90's. They shipped on a promo CD that you got when you bought an Octane. They are seriously funny-as. Check out "Ignite Your Mind" and "I Have a Dream."
Some classic lines including:
Ignite your mind
To the promise of power
Ignite your mind
In seconds, not hours
I used to us Pee Cees
That's when those bean counters use to run the show
Don't get me wrong, PCs are great
Runnin' MS Word you need time to wait
'Cos PCs make you wait...
and
I have a dream, and it's two CPUs
What this will mean, is no more desktop blues
Modelling and rendering, designing, analysing
Just pick any two.
I have a dream, and it's called a cross bar switch,
What this will mean, is no big data-glitch
Peer to peer have no fear, get data in and out of here
Just with the flick of a switch
She goes on to dream about graphics pipes too. Yes, it's a chick singing ;) I mean really... not even I dream about cross bar swtiches.
Comm-IT 2
How did I miss this? Comm-IT was on last Thursday and Friday, and had a big focus on open source technologies.
Crap!
Fan boy! 0
On the Ubuntu Users mailing list earlier today someone was asking about the people behind Ubuntu and Canonical. I replied saying that I thought it was Mark Shuttleworth, and when I got back this evening from seeing The Bourne Supremecy (not too bad, the first one was better...) I had an e-mail from him.
"I'd be interested in this information too. A rumour on Slashdot was that Mark Shuttleworth (http://www.africaninspace.com/home/aboutmark/index.shtml) was behind Canonical. Reading his bio, he looks like a really cool guy to have financing an open source project."
More underneath than behind, given that much of Canonical's first London office is in my living room :-)
As I said, he sounds like the kind of guy that we really need championing Open Source. I'm just glad I said nice things about him ;)