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March 06, 2007
Stop, Linux Time
With Micro$oft asking $4k/business for updates to Win2k and earlier operating systems for the change in DST, you've got to wonder what byzantine implementation they have for time. My Linux boxes are happily purring along with their DST zone updates (which, had I left the automatic update manager running, would've been done without my interference). If something horrific had gone wrong, I could've followed any of the many paths offered in this LinuxWatch article, all they way down to editing the time zone file myself.
There's an unofficial patch to get around this silliness.
While I'm on a short rant; I was playing with Vista at a store the other day. I don't get it. It's like XP with a bigger Start button and a different alt-tab interface. Woo. Why do I need to have 1-2 gigs of RAM and a top-of-the-line video card for that again?
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March 04, 2007
The kid's probably a terrorist, anyhow (or will be, after this)
The Globe and Mail has a story about an Iranian family who lost their refugee plea with Canada and was in the process (after ~3 months of the father's detention and torture in Iran) of smuggling themselves back in to Canada. Their flight got re-routed through the U.S. where their (forged) papers triggered their detention:
“They say we have to pass immigration, and they say because we have Greek passport, you need to get a visa for United States. I said no, our ticket is to Toronto, we have no plan to come here.”After being held in Puerto Rico for five days, the family was brought to Taylor, Tex., about 45 kilometres northeast of Austin, to the main U.S. family detention centre for immigrants.
“My luggage go to Toronto,” said Majid, 42, “and we have to stay here.”
Now, the three of them are locked inside the centre that, U.S. refugee advocates recently alleged, features inadequate medical care, lack of privacy and abusive behaviour by staff toward the green-uniformed detainees.
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