Archive for October, 2007

The Ubuntu Show

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Once I was a wholehearted SuSE addict, but that was before Novell bought it, from 8.0 to, what was it, 9.2 or something? I remember that it took me no time to set up a box as a LAN router, firewall and a file server (Samba). Then I turned to CentOS, since it was so easy to get a web server going. The age of laptops came over me, and I bought myself a room in a web hotel (and didn’t need a stationary server any more). Which distro to use on a modern laptop? I installed Ubuntu 7.04 and upgraded recently to 7.10. Things have really improved in Linux. A lot of interface coding has been done, and all my blessings to the coders! Why spend four hours editing configuration files, when it can be done by a program?

Dumheten stirrer på deg

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Debatt på NRK. Fremskrittspartiet-mannen fra Rogaland, Ketil Solvik-Olsen, bruker en slags kirkemetaforikk uten særlig hell og kjører fraser han har pugget et eller annet sted. De debattene er freak-shows.

Soulens relevans

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Det er visst ingen tvil om at soulen er relevant på Bluesasylet. Sister Rosetta beviser det: “I am so blue. I have almost lost my mind … Sometimes I feel like dying …” Jeg lurer på om hun så lyset til slutt? “Shout, sister, shout!” Fantastiske opptak i dag.

Trechinsky og vom Walt

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Dette er et eksklusivt intervju med porno-legenden “Trechinsky”. I tillegg til å inneha en sentral administrativ posisjon i et større norsk oljeselskap, liker han å “ta seg en pinne i godt lag”. Han har utløst flere brannalarmer enn noen annen, i berlinske hoteller og jordanske museum. Han frekventerte brannskadde massemordere. Read the rest of this entry »