Archive for 2005

Free reading

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

An editor assembles a book called The Best Software Writing from Web based essays on software and interface design. The book is published (typeset in sabon). A blogger assembles a page pointing to the original essays .This can’t be a copyright issue can it? I mean the originals all existed available for free before the [...]

Fans and laptops

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Ubuntu 5.04 and acpi – setting the temperature trip points for a Pentium 3 coppermine processor.

Independent events

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Probabilities can only be multiplied if events are independent. Sudden child deaths in the same family cannot be regarded as independent.

Copyright free images

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

LaTiS Centre Image Archive from Essex University

Thanks for this resource – about 400 free pictures. Mostly .jpegs and around 400 to 600 pixels wide with white backgrounds.

Computers need to be like toasters

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

Neal Stephenson’s essay: In the Beginning was the Command Line
Eric Raymond’s essay: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Did either of these geezers need to cope with fan control in Linux on a 3 year old laptop and a wobbly combo drive on a brand new iBook?

Why can’t computers be like toasters – sealed units that just [...]