Upgrade: Ubuntu Linux 8.04

In the wee hours of last Sunday morning, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my copy of Ubuntu Linux. I’d been using the previous major release (7.10) since it came out, eight months ago. I’d wanted to wait and upgrade Mini-mEee to 8.04 first, before subjecting my main work system to it, but …

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Ubuntu 8.04 for the Eee PC

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my main system over the weekend (I’m preparing a blog entry about it now). I’d hoped to try it out on the Eee system first, but that hadn’t been possible yet. The Ubuntu-Eee project finally posted a Release Candidate for the 8.04 upgrade a week ago yesterday, on the second. …

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“New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging”

This New York Times article suggests that longevity drugs might be not only possible, but developed fairly soon. As I’ve heard that there are already more humans alive right now than have died in all of history combined, that suggests some interesting and disturbing things… I want to live a good long time as much …

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In Pursuit of Powerful, Puzzling, and Private Passwords

(Pardon the excessive alliteration in the title, I got a little carried away. 🙂 ) Last night, I got a message from my instant-messaging program, indicating that it had been logged out of one of my IM accounts because I’d “logged in from another location.” I’m pretty sure that it was an error in the …

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