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Article posted on Jan 31

Never forget 1/31

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 31, 2008, 1:35 pm

Be wary, Be wary
It's the 31st of January
The Boston Bomb Scare
Arrested for a hoax
But treated as a joke
They answered with "70s hair"

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Article posted on Jan 27

Jeffrey Rowland continues to be my hero

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 27, 2008, 6:50 pm

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Article posted on Jan 23

All hail the T60

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 23, 2008, 4:05 pm

It's been just over a year since I bought a ThinkPad T60, and it's still great. Normally a laptop will not last more than a year for me, so the fact that it still looks like it did when I bought it is a testament to its strength. It's survived several falls, and has even been sat on (twice, don't ask). The keys all still have their paint on them, and no paint has worn off (indeed, except for the key lettering, none of the plastic is painted). Even the Little Rubber Feet are still all attached.

The hardware all works great with Debian. Actually, that last part wasn't true until last week. The 3945ABG wireless controller with Linux's ipw3945 driver didn't work well, but was enough to be "usable". But 2.6.24's iwl3945 driver replaced ipw3945, and it's been working great since I installed it.

The T60 was the first ThinkPad sold by Lenovo (and even still had the "IBM ThinkPad" logo everywhere), so hopefully they didn't screw up too much in later models. And of course some people just don't like the ThinkPad design ("butt ugly" is often heard), but at this point I'm very glad I bought the T60 instead of a MacBook. My only regret was getting the lowest-priced processor, which did not have VT/VMX support.

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Article posted on Jan 19

Furry Love Cuffs

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 19, 2008, 7:50 pm

Furry Love Cuffs, originally uploaded by fo0bar.

I saw these at 7-Eleven this morning. SRSLY.

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Article posted on Jan 13

Time flies...

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 13, 2008, 5:20 am

...when you're watching "make ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86_64 arch/um/kernel/ptrace.o" fail over and over. It's 5:30AM, and I have been hacking UML kernels all. night. long.

Don't I know how to spend a Saturday night...

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Article posted on Jan 3

I have a confession...

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 3, 2008, 11:08 pm

I have a fear... of band saws. I can't bring myself to use one (not that it comes up that often), and I always cringe when I see someone else using one (as they do a lot on Mythbusters, for example). "No, you fool! Get your thumb away from that! You're going to cut your hand! Aaaaa!"

It's only band saws though. Hand saws, circular saws, jig saws etc are no problem for me.

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