Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: March 2002

  • FreeBSD

    Going to install FreeBSD and some flavor of Linux on a workstation. Fun! This is to attempt to get closer to the environment in which this project I am working on was originally developed.

  • Achieving AI Through Viruses

    “By attempting to protect ourselves from viruses we are preventing the realization of artificial intelligence. So we should open all of our ports and remove the logins.” — J This was sarcasm, I think. I did find it very amusing.  

  • Started

    Hard getting started this morning… ugh.

  • Hard getting started this morning… ugh.

  • Jess, you’re right. Simplification is a slippery slope right to stereotypes. I am a psychologist by education and sometimes regretably revert. Sorry about that.

  • Crush on Me?

    This is newly posted in my work web site’s guest book. “Guest book spammers whose message contains any form of advertisement for a web site I deem to be commercial will find the entry deleted at MY convenience.” Sorry… I don’t like being spammed. I get close to a thousand emails a day. I consider spam…

  • Stop Digital Piracy

    According to Eisner in this Reuters article, “Congress needs to encourage common ways of stopping digital piracy of movies, TV shows and other entertainment products that threatens to stifle industry innovation…”. If you are already of the opinion that the media industy has no innovation, then I guess digital piracy is supposed to make it…