Posts Tagged ‘ Computing ’

My Love of Gopher

Every so often, I allow myself to be pulled into gopherspace. Each time this sort of thing happens, I find myself falling in love with the refreshingly low-fi brilliance and simplicity that has been forgotten by so many. Once I make my millions, I’ll definately have to stage a gopher revival. I’ll set up a [ READ MORE ]

The Birth of Isaiah

In regards to my previous post regarding the LAAK Stack, the jukebox machine has arrived from Sub300 and I have successfully installed Debian Sarge from the d-i netinst cd. My mother (in her infinite wisdom) suggested I name it Isaiah after the prophet responsible for broadcasting messages to the people. Isaiah is currently running Linux [ READ MORE ]

I Love Antipixel Buttons

  • May 25th, 2005
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My latest find is the by Luca Zappa. With it, one can create antipixel buttons like the aforepictured one. Needless to say, I have gone absolutely nuts with the thing and have created a button for everthing on my link bar (with the exception of the link to planet #lugradio because I am waiting to [ READ MORE ]

Audio Broadcasting Education with the LAAK Stack

Very soon, I will have the opportunity to do two very unique things. Firstly, I will be teaching and running the radio station (WCRP 640AM in the area directly around Lake Como PA) at Camp Ramah in the Poconos this summer. Secondly, I will be gaining first hand experience using Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in [ READ MORE ]

Germanish Email Spam

After doing a little investigating on what was described to me as “possibly anti-semetic german spam”, I have come to a few links courtesy of my friends and teachers on #lugradio which give us a little bit more information than before: An entry on Andrew Oakley’s blog indicates it’s the Sober worm. More from Andrew [ READ MORE ]

Internet Filtering Hurts Education

Upon arriving in the lab today and booting my laptop, I attempted to open the bookmark to the tutorials on the wxPython Wiki, only to find that the page was being blocked by our school’s internet filtering system! The excuse given was that the site was being blocked because it was “Web Page Hosting”. Our [ READ MORE ]

When In Doubt, Learn Something New

  • May 10th, 2005
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Even though the plauge has only dwindled a small amount in it’s intensity, I have managed to drag myself to school. Silence seems to be my M.O. today even in the lab, much to the dismay of the filthy-minded freshman larvae (the kind who ask me for HTML help and watch over my shoulder as [ READ MORE ]

More Worth Laughing At

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Un-Furl the Interweb

  • May 7th, 2005
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So my favourite tool of the moment is a little app called furl (sorry, but the links on the freshmeat page seem to be broken at the moment). It gets HTTP headers from webservers and displays the info in human-readable format. While it’s no replacement for a vgrep of the output of a misbehaving machine, [ READ MORE ]

A Triumph of the Human Intellect

  • May 6th, 2005
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I just read a fantastic essay sent to me by one of my Rabbis who thought that I might enjoy it. I read it in the presence of my good friend and teacher Ben while sitting in the lab. As we read Welcome to a New Age by Thomas A. Condon the rest of the [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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