Now, I know my experience of #debian can barely be called "helpful" or "successful". Indeed I might well have described many of the frequent denizens as one of the most unhelpful community support channels that I've ever had the misfortune to frequent.

But that was all before I went on #centos with a simple question, viz where I might find a more ( Read more... )

I'm still not afraid, even though armed plainclothed police are shooting people who aren't terrorists on my nation's mass-transit system.

Angry, defensive, paranoid; but not afraid.

Schneier on bag searches in NY subways.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

- oft attributed to Benjamin Franklin

I wrote something similar to this in /. earlier, but I think it bears better distribution ( Read more... )

… they tend to be fractal.

To anyone confused about the date of the Battle of the Boyne, I wrote a monograph on this subject last year.

Bad design decisions will dog you (or more likely your successors) 10 years or further down the line.

CPAN is a good idea whose implementation hasn't yet come.

Today I'm irritated at TfL. Now, you see, if I'm interested in traveling on the Docklands Light Railway then the nice DLR people will let me download a nice timetable like this. On the Tube and the other hand you can't download such things, even though they exist for at least some (possibly all?) stations.

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