F*ck off Murphy

Posted by cpbotha on February 28th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

As I was slaving away at my trusty Linux workstation today, the 30G IBM DTLA 307030 IDE hard drive started making extremely upsetting noises…

Euphemisms ‘R Us

Posted by cpbotha on February 26th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

This is probably the most elegant euphemism I’ve heard in a very long time:
“Wat de geachte afgevaardigde daar zegt staat op gespannen voet met de werkelijkheid.” which is short for “Hij LIEGT!”…

Interesting Python factoid of the week

Posted by cpbotha on February 25th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

>>> def someFunc(someParam, someDict={}):
…..

I rule

Posted by cpbotha on February 19th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

I spend quite a chunk of my time hacking on VTK (the Visualization ToolKit), one of the better examples of open source…

I R ekstreem chess playir.

Posted by cpbotha on February 18th, 2003 in · 1 Comment

In order to try and improve my pitiful Chess abilities, I’ve started playing online chess-by-email games via RedHotPawn…

The Linux-running Entertainment PC that I can’t afford right now

Posted by cpbotha on February 15th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

EUR166 for a Via EPIA C3 800, EUR110 for a Starex Mini-ITX case, EUR55 for 256MB of PC133 SDRAM, EUR57 for a LiteOn 16×48x DVD/CD-ROM, EUR115 for a Western Digital 80GB HDD and EUR50 for miscellaneous expenses brings me to the grand (and currently unaffordable) total of EUR553…

Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier is an uncivilized barbarian

Posted by cpbotha on February 14th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

A while ago, I read this fluff piece about Python…

Bruce Perens came down from the mountain

Posted by cpbotha on February 12th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

I have often heard the open source phenomenon (if you want to get pedantic with me about open source vs free software, start by blowing it out yer ass: I’m going to be pragmatic about it and use the two interchangably) compared to religion, but last night was the first time that I had this almost religious open source experience…

mv blog evolution

Posted by cpbotha on February 10th, 2003 in · 2 Comments

Paul just pointed this out: In Ximian Evolution, open your “Summary” window, Select “Tools|Settings” from the menubar, select the “News Feeds” tab under “Summary Preferences”, click on the “Add news feed” button and add this URL: http://cpbotha.net/weblogs/cpbotha/index.rdf Now select this feed from the left hand list and click on the “Add” button in the middle…

My laptop

Posted by cpbotha on February 9th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

This is an AnandTech review of the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Pentium 4 laptop which is just another rebadge of the Clevo 5600…

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