Been playing with the new Dell most of the weekend. Didn’t take long for me to wipe out XP and repartition the drive for FreeBSD. It would seem, however, that the Dimension 2350 won’t run XFree86 4.2 properly given that its video configuration (Intel Extreme Graphics card with 845GL chipset) lacks AGP support. Gonna download … …
US detains children at Guantanamo Bay. The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Flyers advance to the second round for the first time in three years with a huge 6-1 win over Toronto. My original prediction … …
AP Cameraman Shot and Killed in West Bank. He and other cameramen, still photographers and reporters had been at the bottom of the alley and were wearing brightly colored vests that said “Press.” Just priced a P4-2.4Ghz/128Mb/30Gb/DVD-ROM with WinXP Home and a free Palm Zire for under $500 (Dimension 2350, Dell Small Business division). That … …
Guilty until proven innocent. [KFXO story regarding Mike Hawash was moved] Arrested and detained indefinitely without charges, but unlike the poor saps locked up at Gitmo, this is an American citizen. Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Pretty interesting study of how email addresses end up on spam lists.
Finger-pointing after Mosul incident. Witnesses reported that US troops had fired into a crowd which was becoming increasingly hostile towards the new governor in the northern oil city, Mashaan al-Juburi, as he was making a pro-US speech.
Finally got my TrueType fonts working properly after updating Mozilla and building it three times this weekend. I don’t think the rebuilds made a difference as I’m pretty sure it had to do with copying fonts.dir to fonts.scale in the TrueType directory.
Robin Cook speech – Mar. 18, 2003. [Iraq] probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions, but it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories. Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to … …
Caught Bend It Like Beckham this weekend. Fantastic flick with a great soundtrack as well. I may have a use for DeCSS after all… “Smoking gun” WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide. The turnaround was an embarrassment for the US forces in the region, which had been quick to say that they … …
Texas Court Acts to Clear 38, Almost All Black, in Drug Case. Tulia convictions revisited. Speaking of the NY Times, I just noticed today that they revamped the archive so that even with a full link, stories older than 7 days are no longer freely available in their entirety. Looks like the Swimming DVD will … …
Seven women and children shot dead at checkpoint. The checkpoint shooting will increase tensions between American and British commanders who are already alarmed about what they regard as trigger-happy tactics by US soldiers. Deaths in Iraqi marketplace were caused by American missile. No apologies or even an acknowledgement that it occurred.