Author Archives: Pace Arko

A week with the Gutsy Gibbon

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Pace Arko

So I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.1 last weekend. Things went very smoothly. Prior to this, System76 sent out some upgrades for their hardware drivers, perhaps in anticipation of everyone migrating to 7.1. There was really only one hitch. My screen … Continue reading →

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Circus of the Mighty Session Log

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Pace Arko

Victor, Greg, Ralph and Ian in attendance. 9-23-2007 around 5PM until about 9:30PM. However what follows is really a summary of two sessions: To recap briefly: The Circus is in Darth Lom, driven there primarily by Thalin’s vague but powerful … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Lola.

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Pace Arko

In early August my cat, Lola, was diagnosed with failing kidneys. The vet put her on a special diet, subcutaneous hydration and prescribe various medicines but the prognosis wasn’t good. It was mostly wait and see. She was old, over … Continue reading →

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Defenestrating Keyboards

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Pace Arko

Actually, that’s not strictly accurate. I don’t want to throw a keyboard out of a window. I want to remove the Microsoft branding from my Linux laptop keyboard. I don’t think it’s really spite. Microsoft makes a decent enough set … Continue reading →

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One Week with Fiesty Fawn

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Pace Arko

So I’ve had my new Darter Ultra laptop for about a week. I’ve noticed many improvements in speed for many tasks–still image rendering, page loading, conversion of file formats, copying large files and so on. I’m very pleased. A very … Continue reading →

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Web comics

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Pace Arko

Some interesting science fiction web comics I came across recently: Bohemian Drive: In a post-human future, two obsolete robots go on a road trip through the Solar System. Hijinks and soul searching ensue. The Spiders: In an alternate history, President … Continue reading →

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Web stuff link roundup

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Pace Arko

This is another one of these lab-notebook, thinking-out-loud entries. So it’s been a while since I had a rant about Web standards. I think this is for a few reasons: It looked to me that we standardistas had won and … Continue reading →

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Early birthday gift to myself

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Pace Arko

Day before yesterday, I bought a brand new laptop. This will be the first brand new computer I’ve bought in 7 years. My venerable Inspiron 3800 ran Win2k, XP, Redhat 7, Knoppix 3 and Ubuntu 6. I upgraded its RAM, … Continue reading →

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Three Futuristic Questions

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Pace Arko

So, about a week ago, Jamais Casico put up a page where he asked the following three questions: What do you fear we’ll likely see in fifteen years? What do you hope we’ll likely see in fifteen years? What do … Continue reading →

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Nuclear-powered Airships

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Pace Arko

So I had an interesting discussion with Ms. Carlysle last Tuesday. Over the last year, she has been trying, with some success, to temper my knee jerk debunkery. She posited about military experimentation with nuclear powered, stealthy, airships as an … Continue reading →

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