Green Hill Builders is putting a massive subdivision right next to my
property. Some guy came over and asked if he could put a seismograph in
my yard. I said sure. He said I’d know when they were blasting by the
horns. Pretty wild; it shook the whole house. Anyone know any
short-term office rentals in a quiet part of South County? The
alternative is to fire up Doom3 as soon as I hear the horns…
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I probably said “but at least the kernel is free software” one too many
times at OSCON. Miguel
says “I noticed that Open Source proponents using MacOS X have developed
highly tuned excuses, similar to those that smokers have about why
cigarettes are good for you.”
Guilty as charged. I’ve been saying for a while that Mac OS X is holding
the door open for Linux, and I am waiting for all the pieces to fall
into place, at least in a way that satisfies me. I took a first step a
couple of weeks ago by installing YDL on my PowerBook, but I
haven’t booted into it too much. However, Slashdot
reports that the next version of YDL is coming soon, so I’ll have to
check that out.
Edd
has this to say: “one of the things which perennially disappoints me is
the number of OS X machines there in the hands of free software
hackers”, but he also goes on to list the must-have apps, and talks a
bit about installing Linux (with the same conclusion I have, that Debian
is da bomb). Right now, I’m splitting my time roughly 60% Mac OS X, 20%
Linux, 20% Windows XP. Maybe by next OSCON, I’ll be back to using Linux
most of the time.
We’re taking a real vacation this week–up to Keene for a couple of
days, over to Boston, and then probably up to Freeport, Maine. Email and
blogging will be light, but I’ll be sure to post to my TextAmerica Moblog.