2004-02-23

Demistify the Pixel

I’ve uploaded Douglas Rushkoff‘s H2K2 speech, Human Autonomous Zones: The Real Role of Hackers. A highly recommended listen.

How the role of hackers in society has changed. They used to be a necessary counterbalance to corporate and government power. Now, it's more like hackers are the only ones who understand the technology. They have become a balance to the power of technology itself. A discussion by renowned author Doug Rushkoff.

Also check out his article Electronica, the True Cyberculture: How Rave Culture Embodies and defines the Digital Age.

Subscribers to BPM will recognize Rushkoff’s latest novel, Club ZeroG.

This article was modified 2012-09-15.

2004-02-22

backups, linux

Simple MySQL Backup/Restore

To backup:

$ mysqldump -u username -p -h hostname databasename > filename

And restore:

$ cat filename | mysql -u username -p -h hostname databasename

This article was modified 2012-12-22.

2004-02-21

review, books

Simulacra and RFA

I just realized that I never posted a few days ago when I finished Reading Simulacra: Fatal Theories for Postmodernity. So, yeah, I did. It was interesting, but seemed to dragged on at certain parts. You can tell it heavily influenced The Matrix.

Jason Scott is on the last episode of Radio FreeK America, 99.

This article was modified 2012-12-22.

2004-02-13

Pretty Good Day

2600 came today. I have next week off. Ice skating tomorrow.

This article was modified 2012-09-15.

2004-02-09

2600: Winter Edition Released

So the Winter edition of 2600 is out. Some people have already recieved them, I have not. Hopefully sometime this week.

New Firebird, too. They renamed it to FireFox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

This article was modified 2012-09-15.

2004-02-02

review, books

Fear and Loathing

I finished reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas last night. That’s a damn good book, in an LSD-induced sort of way. I Think the New York Times Book Review quote on the back does a good job of summing it up

The best book on the dope decade.

Speaking of the back, here’s the excerpt they put on it:

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge...

I can’t wait to see what traffic Google is going to send my way because of that quote.

But, yeah, good book. And short. So read it.

This article was modified 2012-12-22.

2004-01-20

review, books

Philip K. Dick

I finished Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick last night. It’s a very good, highly recommended book. My favorite story is the Electric Ant. Go read it.

This article was modified 2012-12-22.

2004-01-13

Pi

Mathematics is the language of nature.
Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

This article was modified 2012-09-15.