The laptop’s still not fixed… sigh.
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
News
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Newspapers are really depressing. News in general is really depressing.
The Name of the Wind
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Usually, books dont’t live up to their hype; The Name of the Wind1 is a nice exception. It really is as good as people say it is.
I really got into reading around 2003-2004… College was really boring, and there were still a couple of years left. Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop. I [...]
History meme
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
“But ma, all the cool kids are doing it!”
fiddler:~% uname -a
Linux fiddler 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
fiddler:~% history -1000 | \
pipe> awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' \
pipe> | sort [...]
Pipes
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Two pipes for harpers.org: one to list only the ‘Weekly Review’ articles, another to list only the quotes published there.
The continuing laptop saga
Monday, April 14th, 2008
After my last post, there were a few more complications. Unfortunately, no one seems to have an idea about what to do regarding them.
The problem I face is very weird—when starting up the machine, it will always automatically power down within a couple of minutes. This happens even on the BIOS screens, but if by [...]