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Archive for June, 2007

But I wore the juice!

Posted in slice-o-life on June 30th, 2007 5 Comments »

Here’s a fabulous way to start a research paper. In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken from surveillance cameras were broadcast on the 11 o’clock news. When [...]

Fedora 7 on a Thinkpad X60: not so hot

Posted in hardware, linux on June 20th, 2007 No Comments »

I’ve been running test releases of Fedora 7, and lately the final release, for a number of months on my fairly new Lenovo Thinkpad X60. Here’s a brief summary of my experiences. I’ve been using Fedora since 0.92 (Taroon), and while I’ve generally been happy with it, F7 is not exactly a model of stability or sleekness. Here’s a [...]