Taliah wants to bring her website straight through the aughts and into this decade. We were going to write a book, a ten year anniversary of BicyclePaintings.com and I was going to contribute an essay about how much has changed since I whipped together an html template and showed ...
It is batizado season, and this year, we're also holding competitive games. I'm hard enough on myself, so I'm not competing. (I will graduate though, if you want to come Oct 2.) Instead I'm in charge ...
I'm going to need a weekend at home by the time I'm done with my whirlwind of meetings (note: Las Vegas is surreal and fascinating.) but this sounds great. A weekend of biking and bicycle repair workshops in the Catskills with my friend Chris: As you might have heard, my friend Ryan and I are putting on a weekend long bicycle workshop in upstate NY on the weekend of June 25-27th. This is the first time we have put on this workshop and have been unable to register any participants as of yet. However, our shortfall is your gain. We would like to do this workshop in the future and we feel your participation and feedback will be great help for the workshop's future development. Thus, we are sending you a personal invite to join us for the weekend for a greatly reduced $100 per person! This price includes: five great meals, lodging, rides, and workshops. This is all in the context of Woodbourne, NY at a house that is on 15 acres of land. You will be responsible for getting yourself and your bicycle to the location.
I won't be around on June 10, but this will be interesting. Promise: Please join Not An Alternative, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, and Upgrade NY! this Thursday, June 10 for the opening of Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, an exhibition which examines models of participation and participation as a model in art and activism.
Next task: make a bootable USB thumb/stick/drive/thing to rescue a busted machine (In this case, little old Brahms). dkg, as ever, knows what's what and gave me great advice: Bootable USB sticks are just like bootable hard drives for modern computers. Partition them with parted, use mkfs to create a filesystem on them, use grub-install to give them a bootloader, put a kernel and an initial ramfs on them, configure the bootloader to load them, and away you go. He even offered me his filesystem rescue debirf image with the latest 686 kernel from debian unstable.
Okay, lazyweb: Why can't I play DVDs and why, when I have installed in my computer two RAM modules of 2GiB each, does my computer have 2.9 GiB of the RAMS? Why? On the DVD end, I have installed one million things and gotten from an error in Totem ("no uri handler implemented for dvd") to Totem quietly crashing when I try to play a DVD. VLC spins the disk and then stops. /var/log/messages shows this after trying to run VLC: Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.901791] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906376] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906386] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906397] Info fld=0x98d0 Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906402] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region
Via dkg, whose excellent essay Technical Architecture Shapes Social Structure you all already read when we first published The Organic Internet, comes an academic variation on that theme: Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching. Normally I'd bookmark and move on, but this is extra interesting ...
I haven't been following the Google Books lawsuit and settlement proposal too closely because I don't often think of myself as a book author. Not in the sense that Google Books or the settlement will impact my livelihood. It hadn't actually occurred to me that the settlement might impact my freedom. But a press release from the Software Freedom Law Center caught my eye: Today SFLC filed a letter with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York objecting to the Google Book Search Copyright Class Action Settlement. In the letter, filed on behalf of the FSF and author Karl Fogel, SFLC asks the court to consider the impact of the settlement upon members of the class who have distributed their works under Free licenses. I'm embarrassed to confess I had been thinking that this lawsuit (You are of course familiar with the lawsuit. Right?) was more academic than all that. I was thinking about what it means that Yahoo, Amazon and Google get to go sit in a darkened room somewhere (an expansive board room with a fine catered lunch, more likely) and rewrite copyright law all by themselves. I wasn't thinking about freedom.
My reBlog project is still lagging so I can't seamlessly repost, say, idealab posts. Canonical link tags? Swoon. Could everyone please adopt this week? Kthxbye. Poll question: should I start another blog? I sort of want a really open kitchen door for Gotham Gazette. Or I can just try to ...
Worth trying: sar -q for a rundown of queue lengths and load averages. Also pstree and I need to sort out what this: I reniced the gzip process with a low priority level to reduce the load it's putting on your server. I'd recommend running these scripts with a +19 ...
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