From the monthly archives:

March 2006

New puppy!

March 30, 2006
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OK, it’s not the usual geeky fare that gets posted here.. but Tiff and I got a new puppy. His name is Chimo, and he’s a 4 month old Malemute/Lab mix. We’ve decided to make him a geeky dog, and set up a blog for him.. check it out!.

Tagged as: Pups

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new debian i386 libc6 packages for xen

March 23, 2006

As those of you who use Xen on the i386 arch know, the libc6 stuff can be rather annoying. The Debian libc6 developers have finally released a test glibc that includes xen compatibility — no more moving /lib/tls out of the way and losing performance!
You can grab the packages from:
http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/xen/
Hopefully these will be mainline soon.

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source, Virtualization

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new favorite music player for linux

March 4, 2006

Well, I used to swear by XMMS for a music player.. then I decided I wanted some nifty features like better KDE integration and last.fm updates (that’s where the last listened links came from on the right), so I decided to try out Amarok again. It’s great! It has all sorts of nifty features, like [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Music

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