Tag: linux

  • The State of the Amy

    So, the latest in the world wide webs is that Electric Car Thomas Edison has taking hold of Twitter’s controls and pointed the nose straight for the ground. Everyone’s running around trying to communicate their evacuation points to all their friends before it gets to the point where communication is impossible ­— where everyone is…

  • Sweet Sixteen Penguin

    May 3rd, 2004. That was when I wiped the hard drive on my computer, one I’d built with the help of a coworker, installed a second drive that was bigger—a whole-ass 30GB, compared to the first which was maybe 3GB if I remember right—and installed Mandrake Linux with the help of a friend over the…

  • Raspberry Pi(rate) Box

    So, a dear friend recently gifted me a Raspberry Pi after I mentioned how I’d been toying with the idea of setting up a Pirate Box, the idea being to use it for file sharing and messaging during tabletop RP sessions. It showed up about a week ago, and due to an annoying combination of…

  • Penguins and Computers

    So, as I mentioned in my last rambling, I bought a new computer. I went with System76, because I felt it was important to buy a machine that was sold as a Linux machine first and foremost. Partially because it meant I knew it wouldn’t take a lot of fussing to get working (and let’s…