Neal Stephenson and the Sci-Fi Ghetto
“Can you make a Unix administrator into a character people will find compelling?
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Now the nerds are running everything, and I think that has made changes in science fiction.
Damm straight, we are running everything and are staring characters. I’m waiting for FOX network to come up with SiliconValley.com, Melrose Place/Beaverly Hills meets the uber geeky webshops of the valley. It will happen, the question is who will do it first.
Readers ascribe devious motives to Microsoft’s policy to withhold OS CDs
“An IT manager at a large manufacturer says that’s exactly what Microsoft officials told him. ‘I spoke to some of my contacts there, and found out that the medialess format is primarily designed to be a firewall against competitors like Linux,’ he wrote, explaining it will make it harder to have a back-out strategy in place if an experimental Linux deployment gets into trouble. ‘Now I don’t have any Windows CDs for the backout. What would you suggest I do if problems with Linux cause me to want to revert back to Windows? To discourage corporations and consumers from changing, they are no longer distributing CDs with every machine, in the hopes that fear of change without any practical possibility of return will discourage most users from even looking at other systems.”
Not to mention recovery when Windows has a hard disk crash, like that never happens.
Frontier: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg, now avialable online.
Bibleman, check out the episodes, too funny.
Alternative Lifestyle Linux RFC
“PimpLinux: Collects other people’s money for something that ought to be free (illegal in some states and U.S. territories).”
fozbaca.org after pornolize, not for the religous right.
Scott Reents Holds Forth, answers slashdot questions, he is from The Democracy Project.
A Citizen-centric Internet.
Why Candidate, Advocacy Group and Other Political Sites Fail, and What They Can DO about It
One family’s values Bill Saltonstill, a private man, writes ‘The Letter’ that embraces his daughter and rejects the GOP
“In what he calls the most difficult letter he has ever written, Saltonstall stated: ‘I have a lesbian daughter who, with her partner, has adopted three children into a loving family. The national leadership of the Republican Party takes the position that no gay people should adopt children, and, if they do, the child might be taken away from them to be placed elsewhere.
‘I regard this as a direct attack on my family. My daughter wants to keep these children. They are my grandchildren, and I want to keep them. While I will continue to support local Republicans, as long as the Republican national leadership feels this way, I cannot support it.”
[via Pursed Lips]
Female Jesus, intresting
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