Dissected lens, this is what you get
So if you dissect your old cannon lens you’ll end up with something similar like this. When the lens stopped to work, young photographer here decided to take it apart he ended up with a bunch of rings, wires and other camera stuff. ...

Interview with Inventor of Linux, Linus Torvalds!
Of course, I did get the feeling that Bill Gates was a money-hungry, arrogant, geek-vampire from his book while I got the feeling that Linus Torvalds had bigger things in mind like creating open-source operating system platform and ...

Fun Fact ~ Ostensibly
Ostensibly I love this word! I can never really remember what it means. I just get a sense of when it's the right time to use it. You know what I mean? Sometimes I panic and look it up just to make sure that I am using it correctly, ...

National Coming Out Day (October 11th)
So yes, today is National Coming Out Day. It’s been 20 years since this day was first created, as a day in which to not be ashamed of who we are and wear our symbols. Yanna, however, the LGB — and it’s mostly the LG since the B is often ...

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Linus Blogs About 2.6.27 Release
Linus Torvalds who has recently started blogging, writes about the new 2.6.27 release. The developer's viewpoint on releases tend to be different from end users. Some interesting bits...

Friday’s Post: No Bones about Gender Pronouns
Note: The post was started on October 10th but I didn’t finish it until today. Having the day off has been pretty nice. I’ve avoided reading the news lately because it’s too depressing. People just react to things without thinking. ...

Nick Ali: Blackberry Backups in Linux and Linus’s Potty Mouth
Somehow I missed that Linus Torvalds is now blogging. He says its supposed to be a family blog and there isn’t much on it yet, but I hope to see some of his legendary commentary, like what he thinks of the OpenBSD crowd and the Intel ...

weekend
Lizzy, Maddie and I are hopping a plane in a few minutes to go to my grandmother's funeral in Washington state. Wish me luck on this outward-bound journey -- I change planes in Denver. That could be a zoo. I splurged on a direct flight ...

Linux Kernel 2.6.27 Released, Linus offers some behind the scenes ...
More importantly though, now that Linus has started blogging, he gives a unique glimpse into the release process and how it differs from that of his previous company Transmeta. So I tagged the release five hours ago, and during the few ...

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