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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Coming soon: Everything Must GoThe next edition of "Everything Must Go" will be appearing here soon. --Paul Friday, October 12, 2001I'm back to Red Hat 7.1 on the Dell L400, and I think I'm going to stick with RH, assuming I can figure out the NIC loading problem, where it attempts to use the NICs before the PC Card subsystem is started. Why still use it? Because RH is just so much better supported, and has all the command line tools (PINE, Fetchmail, etc.) that I want. Also, 7.2 is out any day now. Please, please, please fix that problem.... [ Posted at 12:33 PM | Permalink ]Dan Brickin has written an important piece about why copy protection robs the future, in which he explains that "copy protection will break the chain of formal and informal archivists who are necessary to the long-term preservation of creative works." I'm with you, Dan. [ Posted at 12:30 PM | Permalink ]
Monday, October 08, 2001Virus scanning under XP now has two choices: The horrible Norton Anti-Virus 2002 and McAfee VirusScan 6.0, which I bought this weekend at Micro Center. We'll see how long it lasts, as I know I need to run AV software, but I can never stand the effect it has on the system. I also grabbed a copy of Microsoft's bloated Encarta Reference Library 2002, mostly for its dictionary and thesaurus tools. But you can't really customize the install too much, so I only installed the FactFinder component, which is wonderful, providing both dictionary and thesaurus, but limited, because you have to be online to use it. Grr... [ Posted at 8:35 AM | Permalink ]A massive hard drive crash stuffed thurrott.com, internet-nexus.com and, more importantly, xpdigitalmedia.com for over a week late last month, and I'm still not back up to speed. I've recreated the XP Digital Media site and all of Internet Nexus, which was old anyway, but Thurrott Dot Com is going to take some work. I'm religious about backups locally--I have an amazing set of CDs both at home and an offsite location--but the Web stuff was out of date. No more. [ Posted at 8:32 AM | Permalink ] Max Payne is amazing. Brian turned me on to this game, which I completed in three days, the first time I actually cared about a game since... well, since Quake III. Good stuff and highly recommended. [ Posted at 8:29 AM | Permalink ] So Mandrake 8.1 isn't the be all, end all either and now I'm not sure where to turn, though I'll download Suse 7.3 today. Mandrake doesn't include many text oriented tools, like PINE and PICO, which I definitely need. And I'm tired of the insane GNOME/Ximian issues, where the shell just doesn't know how to handle common file types (like TAR and GZ files) natively. There's no excuse for that. [ Posted at 8:29 AM | Permalink ]
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