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Monthly Archives: March 2009

If automobile design were left to open source developers…

30-Mar-09

… we’d be driving cars with 17 wheels, 8 transmissions, and 3 engines. This is especially true in the GNU crowd.
For reasons that will become apparent in a post I’ll make in a few days, I was simply trying to build ffmpeg out of the FreeBSD ports collection. Building individual ports immediately after updating one’s [...]

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Hey Dreamhost, you’re okay by me!

07-Mar-09

Something verging on two months ago, I noticed that I wasn’t able to reach certain websites that I frequent (usually by way of RSS feeds) from my home Internet connection (a business DSL dry loop through Verizon). Some examples: Foobooz, riotclitshave (it’s a pun on right-click, save; shut up), Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s blog. What these sites [...]

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