Posts Tagged ‘ F/OSS ’

News Abounding

Ok, so in a quick survey of some interesting news posts, please peruse the following: Iranian president says that Israel is a “disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the map.” only to be scolded by Condi earlier today. (ABC NEWS) The U.S. CIA is using what is being called a “stolen laptop” filled with [ READ MORE ]

A Penny A Page

Simply because it is freakin hilarious to show off, my program requires me to create a few academic web pages simply to showcase my work. Check it out here and try not to laugh. On the other hand I did enjoy creating it with NVU and to be honest I am rather pleased with it[ READ MORE ]

Google Talk Might Be Getting Better

Ok so I began trying out the new Google Talk service a few weeks ago when it came out. Of course, because there isn’t yet an official client for Linux, I looked at the list of other clients that are capable of interfacing with Google talk and decided that because I was using Gaim anyhow, [ READ MORE ]

A (semi-)Useful Script

After getting rather sick of hearing newbies ask for painfully general system information, I’ve created a little Python script called PySysInfo (GPL of course) to show some basic system tidbits. It’d written using Tkinter only because wxPython is ugly, slightly painful and requires more than just stock Python. Anyone who has any improvement ideas such [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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 ]

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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