People trying to run both together may find that unlike peanut butter and chocolate, there is less deliciousness. Specifically, a bunch of keys (like arrow, insert, etc) may stop working. There’s a fix for the lost keys here. I also had some issues making the virtual network connection between the host and virtual machines. I [...]

I really wish HST were around to cover this year’s election crazy time.

At one point I point to the GSA guy and say, “I don’t need to talk to that guy” at which point he yells, “Fuck you” I say to him, “I’m gonna need your name and your supervisor’s name.” and I snap off several pictures of him to record the event. He again explodes and [...]

Epic Win: Goodbye, schadenfreude; hello, fail. Why is everyone saying “fail” all of a sudden? – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine. My favorite quote: It’s as if LOLcats coincided with a global outbreak of some feline adorability virus. The financial crisis also fits neatly into the Internet’s tendency toward overstatement. (Worst. Subprime mortgage crisis. [...]

Ibex comes out in two weeks, I’m excited. ——– New Features since Ubuntu 8.04 8.10 Technical Overview | Ubuntu.

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public. CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret [...]