Category Archives: Science and Engineering

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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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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Net Neutrality, Aero and Linux screen readers

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Pace Arko

So this is really a bunch of random computery things thrown together into a post. Yes, another boring, “Pace is thinking out loud post.” First, I continue to strike tiny blows to protect network neutrality from the lobbyists of telecommunications … Continue reading →

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Linear Transformer Drivers

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Pace Arko

One of the things I always loved about physics was the aura of immense, cosmic power that surrounded the experimental tools physicists build. I think this is not really appreciated by most people simply because they don’t know the science … Continue reading →

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Other People's Dead Tech

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Pace Arko

One side-effect of my part-time vocation as a computer technician is that people often give me their dead gadgets and old software. Actually they don’t give it to me. What really happens is that I see they are about to … Continue reading →

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Testing pictures and Ecto's abilities

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Pace Arko

I know my new CSS rule works but I just wanted to inform some of you of it. IE6 should see the pictures I have here now. Also I wanted to see just how sophisticated Ecto’s image editing and addition … Continue reading →

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Blog Clients for Linux Stink

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Pace Arko

I envyed envied Ecto on Macintosh and similar solutions on XP (And I guess now Vista.). I wanted a WYSIWYG blog client in Linux. I’ve tried out Drivel, gnome-blog, KBlogger and BloGTK (Which I think is the best of the … Continue reading →

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Xenon, Neutron and Nvu

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Pace Arko

Oh, and by the way, the previous post was the first I’ve made on our new iron. The mighty, mighty Farlopsian bubble is now being generated by some serious hardware: a Dell PowerEdge 2950, running the Red Hat distro and … Continue reading →

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Mine is a dying art.

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Pace Arko

Over the last 8 or so years, blog scripts, site content management systems, site hosting, and desktop web publishing clients have grown so sophisticated that authoring and administering a personal site is trivial these days. If you can deal with … Continue reading →

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Sigh, standards support, yet again

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Pace Arko

There were images in my last post but, many of you probably didn’t see them because Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t support cascading stylesheets as well as it should. Now, you really shouldn’t worry about this because Microsoft Vista is coming … Continue reading →

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