Archive for February, 2006

Linux Revisited

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Over the last two weekends, I spent numerous hours trying to install OpenSuse Linux on my laptop. Actually, installing it wasn’t the real problem; getting the built-in wireless network adapter to talk to my wireless network was.
I remember the days when Linux was still fresh and new, and there were only one or two distributions. [...]

Start Your Own Campfire

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

After marvelling over the idea behind Campfire, I wondered how easy Rails would make it to start my own campfire. After all, the concept doesn’t seem to be all that complex: log people’s messages and feed them back to all the other people in the same chatroom. There’s some bells and whistles around that, like [...]

News of the World

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

M. and I were just talking about how much the web has changed our lives. She can now find, read and print scientific articles for her work via large databases on the web; articles from bonafide, peer-reviewed magazines, that sometimes are not even published on paper anymore. In my own work, the web is indispensable [...]