Public Knowledge’s new star off the rails

Posted by Richard Bennett

Public Knowledge and Free Press have apparently hired file-sharing enthusiast Robb Topolski in some lofty-sounding role, and he feels compelled to expound on network theory that’s way over his head. I’m trying to correct some of his misunderstandings, but it’s not going well. Here’s what I told him at his new employer’s blog: FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us

Upperclass Twit of the Year

Posted by Richard Bennett

This Monty Python sketch was the inspiration for the Hipster Olympics. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us

Not too bad

Posted by Richard Bennett

The Hipster Olympics are quite ironic. H/T the New Megan McArdle blog. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us

QOTD

Posted by Richard Bennett

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us

Adobe software on Linux

Posted by Richard Bennett

This is the first in a series on things that don’t work right. Fedora 7 is the latest release of Linux in the Red Hat line. It includes the 2.6.21 kernel, which has kernel-resident KVM virtual machine support, Firefox 2, and the latest versions of the Gnu toolchain and all that. It’s the first Linux [...]