Archive for October, 2006
100KB/s isn’t really that fast after all
Yazan: Ronnie | 15 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Life, Linux, Observations
This I can say after downloading Slackware 11 through BitTorrent.
It took about 14 hours to download 3.6Gb of Slackware 11’s x86 DVD ISO image. I’m not someone who could wait for that long at a time, so I had to do it in a span of several days (good thing I could just stop and [...]
Treo 680/750
Yazan: Ronnie | 13 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Technology
At last! Successors to the Treo 650 for the GSM market!
The Treo 750 is shown below:
and here’s the Treo 680:
Look, it doesn’t have the stubby antenna anymore! The 750’s running Windows Mobile 5.0 (like its EV-DO cousin the 700w), and the Treo 680 runs PalmOS. I’m just wondering why didn’t they just name it the [...]
LG GSA-H10N 16x Super Multi DVD Rewriter
Yazan: Ronnie | 05 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Technology
So I had to buy one to upgrade my existing CD-RW drive. My image collection, file downloads, CD ISOs, and videos are getting large enough that I had to juggle several regular CDs just to back them up. Now each group of files has their own DVD-RW! It took about 15 minutes to fill up [...]
Slackware 11 at last!
Yazan: Ronnie | 04 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Linux
After about a year’s worth of development and testing, Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 11. I got wind of it from the Slackware mailing list.
I was introduced to Linux through RedHat 5.2, but it was with Slackware 4 that I learned a lot about Linux. It was the first Linux distro that I bought from a [...]
Preserving our roots
Yazan: Ronnie | 03 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Web
Google, Inc. made news this week for buying the garage where they first set up shop. It was, according to reports, part of Google’s efforts to preserve part of their living legacy.
I’ve never thought of myself as someone who would make a huge dent on humanity for my works related to computers. However I’d like [...]
