The SoapVox

So, today I found this interesting article in LinuxToday and thought that it was worth a reply.
Eric Raymond and the RTFM Jerks
Isn’t that an engaging header for an article? :) First of all, I don’t understand why ESR got dragged into this…his only mistake (if you can call it that) was writing a document [...]

I know I’ve been concentrating only on authors from Baen, but it’s what I’ve been reading lately, so… :) I *do* have non-Baen books lined up for reading after I finish what I’m currently reading, before the *next* Baen book (it’s actually part of this series) comes out lol!
But for now…some more Eric Flint :) [...]

This new review is about a series written by two of my favourite authors, David Weber and John Ringo. The series is, of course, the March Upcountry Series.
There’s four books, but Ringo’s website says that there’s 3 more books contracted in this series (yay! :) So far, the books are:

March Upcountry
March to the Sea
March [...]

Well, this happens when I don’t hit MandrivaClub often enough lol!
On March 16th, the club posted an interview with François Bancilhon, current CEO of Mandriva, in which he explains his point of view of Gael Duval’s departure from Mandriva.
In the interview, Bancilhon says that Gael wasn’t fired, he was laid off, which isn’t the [...]

…you all may wanna start saving money so somebody can give me one of these as my bday present :)
iRex reveals deets on its iLiad eBook reader
It says the battery lasts for a week of 3hr-a-day reading sessions…which means it’ll work for about 5 days of my normal 4hr-a-day reading sessions, which is more than [...]

Yesterday I finished re-reading for the Nth time (I read too much to just read books once…if I did that, I’d be even poorer than I am :) the Raj Whitehall Series by David Drake (Baen books list) and S.M. Stirling (Baen books list). I actually re-read it because of the post I wrote about [...]

I know I haven’t posted much about linux, and now it’s two posts in a row, but…this one I couldn’t pass up.
Gael Duval founded Mandrake Linux back in 1998, based on RedHat but with KDE as the Desktop Environment. He has been one of the most respected voices in the OSS/FS community almost since the [...]

Being a geek is hard work, so, what do geeks do? we create more geeks :)
I found this from…mmm…LinuxToday, I think (it was a couple of days ago, and my memory sucks and I forgot to note in the bookmark where I found it  ), and I think it’s a very interesting anecdote about being [...]

Yesterday, Handy Solo asked about SF authors/books (tho he called them “sci-fi” and made Asimov spin in his grave) to see if he could pick up something new to read, and then told me that I need to write more reviews…and he’s right lol! So, I’ve decided to write a review about one of my [...]