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21 September 2005
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:13:00 GMT InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine - spack.org/wikivia Kjell Olsen2330 days agoSo many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we’ve evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands.
Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.
It is quite inconceivable that superior hacking tools could have been created from a blank sheet of paper by product engineers. Even if they are the brightest engineers in the world they are simply outnumbered.
The ideal OS for me would be one that had a well-designed GUI that was easy to set up and use, but that included terminal windows where I could revert to the command line interface, and run GNU software, when it made sense. A few years ago, Be Inc. invented exactly that OS. It is called the BeOS.
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22 March 2005
Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:40:00 GMT Ken Kifer's Bike Pages -- bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor.Kjell Olsen2513 days agoExcellent site with all kinds of stuff relating to biking. Tips, tricks, essays and the like, and lots of it. Poor guy was killed a few years back by a drunk driver… Theres also all kinds of good stuff on his site.
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09 March 2005
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:32:41 GMTThe Mind's Eye
Henri Cartier-Bresson
A collection of essays by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a French photographer who died just last year and pioneered the field of photography.
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