Learn to be Free
I recently updated wordpress to version 2.0 and added a useful plugin called postie
postie allows you to post blog entries using email, so you can update your blog using your mobile phone if it can send email and if it can take pictures you can also include them in your post, this is also known as moblogging.
This is a great way to introduce windows users to GNU/Linux.
I put together a tutorial for newbies and some screenshots using a few other distributions for teachers/trainers thinking about using Qemu.
Here’s a screenshot of Slax showing off KDE Desktop. Click for fullsize.
I’ve been playing the online version of a game called Go on IGS Pandanet.
“Go, Weiqi, or Baduk1 is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC.”
You can download the client here. Here’s the screenshots.
” A 3D and 2D Goban, SGF editor, client for IGS-PandaNet and interface for GNU Go.”
You can also play vs GNU Go.
Its easy to learn but I’m still struglling to get my first cap.
Reading Sensei’s Library improved the way I play so you may want to check it out. It reminds me of chess how you really have to concentrate and at times think ahead. Register at IGS Pandanet and take me on, my username is Chrismo.
I like Paul Grahams site, he has some really cool essays, books on lisp and a story on how they sold Viaweb to yahoo for $45 million.
He also wrote an essay on what you can’t say that I think most people would enjoy reading.
“Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them.”
He gave an awesome talk about hackers that you can download here
Originally from slashdot but this article is well worth a read.
What is your most dangerous idea.
ROGER C. SCHANK makes some interesting comments about education.
“My dangerous idea is one that most people immediately reject without giving it serious thought: school is bad for kids — it makes them unhappy and as tests show — they don’t learn much.”
Read more on this page, he’s forth from the top.
I’ve setup the Superuser User Group. There’s still quite a lot to do but I’m tired so hopefully I’ll get back into the swing of things soon.
Over the holidays I’ve been having some fun with free and open source online games. I posted a list of 10 online games that we’ve been playing on GNU/Linux and windows in the user group forum.