Month: October 2002

Atheist Scout Could be Booted

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From The Seattle Times, Atheist Scout fights decision to boot him:

The Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts has given Eagle Scout Darrell Lambert about a week to decide “in his heart” if he’s truly an atheist. If he insists on sticking to his belief that there is no God, the Council will terminate his membership. […]

Hmm, I’m not sure how I feel about that one. Sure, the Boy Scouts have a right to boot him if they want to, but I’m not sure if that’s the right thing to do. (Link from ObscureStore)

Weird Al New Album Progress

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Weird Al is apparently working on his 11th album, and he linked to some studio-session photos from his site. As with most pictures from a band’s studio-time, they were probably taken by one of the band members (my hunch is that it was Bermuda, in this case).

Band-pictures are cool and all, but I’m struck by their low quality. I mean, the lighting is all wrong on the left-side picture on this page. And, the picture on the left side here is too dark. And, that doesn’t even go into the framing issues.

As the Weird Al Band is successful, I would think they could at least afford a better camera for themselves :-/.

More on Red Hat and KDE

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There seems to be some confusion surrounding Red Hat and whether they (intentionally or unintentionally) mangled their KDE.

“Mike’s Little Website” has A Users’ Perspective of Red Hat 8.0’s KDE. Now, I’m not pro Red Hat, per se, but I think they have had some rough treatment regarding what may have been due to recompiling some apps with GCC 3. Sure, that may break a few things, but it’s not sabotage.

It’s been alleged that Red Hat deliberately broke Konqueror plugins. […] Konqueror plugins work. On my current 8 BETA system, my favorite Flash site (www.xdude.com) works, my favorite Quicktime site (www.quicktime.com/trailers) works, and so do most other sites (macromedia.com still has issues though). The issue was that older versions of these closed source plugins were compiled with ‘ancient’ (according to Bero) compilers, and this couldn’t be dynamically loaded from the GCC 3 compiled nspluginviewer. Macromedia seem to have fixed the problem with their current Flash 6 open beta […]