The past few days I’ve been rejiggering my LAN in my spare (ha!) time. My primary NAT/file server box is now running Gentoo Linux on ReiserFS (except for grub, which apparently breaks on ReiserFS 3.6. that was but one of those fun little discoveries I had along the way). My theory about Gentoo is that it’s become really popular because there’s something about compiling your whole system from scratch that’s just plain satisfying. It’s like the old days, except slightly better documented. I’m definitely digging the Portage package system. It has the best things that I liked about Debian: you know everything installed on your system, easy-breezy updating, merging/unmerging that actually works, and, as a bonus, the packages are much more current than Debian’s. The only slight pain is having to manually do all the config/rc-updating manually after install, but then again, it doesn’t butter my toast either.
Ernie’s reliving the pain that everyone goes through when they decide to go ‘fully standards compliant’ – the problem with this being of course, there are no browsers that are. Personally, I think css filtering (like Tantek’s high pass) is for the birds. If you’re gonna hack to browsers, then go all the way. phpsniff is your friend.
I noticed that Larry’s presentation is on the syllabus of at least 3 classes. free culture is homework. Cool.
- UC Irvine, Writing 139 (37 ref)
- University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, TNMA 300/500, Creativity in the Arts (29 ref)
- George Mason University, NCLC375/ENGL360, Textual Media (23 ref)
These classes look sorta fun. More interesting than anything in the similar vein that were offered at USC.