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Happy Saint Valentine’s Day
A special day deserves a special blog posting… Today is NOT the day to feel in infatuated with sugar-candy like “lovey” emotions. Today is also not a day for chocolates, flowers, hearts, and a crazy winged creature code named “Cupid”. It not also not a day to lust or for envy of not being with…
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The Story of the GNU
Last Thursday I received a package from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Along with a nifty t-shirt, I ordered my stuffed gnu. Now the penguin on my desk has a new friend. The reason for the penguin is obvious, I am big fan of the GNU/Linux operating system. The penguin is the de facto logo…
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Now on identi.ca!
If you can’t get enough of my blogging goodness, well I started microblogging as well. You can follow my antics, exploits, escapades or whatever you want to call them on identi.ca. My ID is dorianpula.
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Wubi, How Much I Miss You
Dual-booting on a Vista machine turned out to be a really, really bad idea. At least when you are trying NOT to kill Vista in the process. Now cleaning out GRUB, reinstalling Vista’s MBR and re-extending all the partitions is in order. The number of hoops one needs to jump through, especially if you don’t…
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The New “Mojave” Experiment
I have a few friends working at Microsoft. And a usual conversation goes in the direction of which is better Microsoft or Linux. Then the flames roll in from across the horizon, and everyone ends up agreeing in disagreeing. I’m planning to bring this fight to the next level. With any luck this will end…
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Moving In…
I migrated my blog to its new home here a few days ago. Already I feel a lot more comfortable than I ever did in Blogger. It feels like a moved from an apartment to a single family detached house. And yes I am liking it. Like an new house owner, I am now in…
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justCheckers on Hold – Again – Kinda
I’m putting my involvement with the justCheckers project on hold for a while. Progress ground to a halt when I started to dig into the code. In its current state most of the application’s core functionality needs reworking. Meaning to go forward someone would need to reimplement slides and jumps that allows for multiple jumps…
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A Review of January 2009
Every so often I like to look back and review my achievements. In the past I did it so rarely, that I just looked my current work and the few things I remembered made it look like I achieved little throughout the year. So I’ll try to do a quick review for January here. In…
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RMS Does Toronto
Yesterday I got to finally meet Richard Stallman (RMS) in person. And yes, he is a way cooler dude than many in the “open source” gang say he is. The FSF announced a while back in a press release, that RMS would be speaking at UofT on the topic of copyrights in a networked world.…