All is vanity and vector linux.

Vector Linux 5.1 released

Now I shall try this out on an old computer and let you know how it goes. So excited! I like this OS more for what it aspires to be than for what it is, and what it is, is a ticket to Linux Hell for those unsuspecting newbies eager to flee the grasp of windoze et al. See, I bought the first slackware install cd for version 3.x in 2002 or 2003, loaded Vector on my 1997 PII, 233Mhz, 64 MB RAM, 4 GB harddrive packard bell desktop piece of poop (affectionate term) and set it to dual boot with WIN98SE. The computer worked fine, and, although I couldn't surf the net, print, play music, hear sound at all, or set my screen to the correct display size to see what I was typing, -- Boy, was my box a memory-efficient master.

Random stuffs and Marketing 101

Hmm... I've read this article, and I am convinced that I know tons of people proficiently versed in the effective use of the Chewbacca Defense. Yeah, myself included. That reminds me of the classic marketing technique -- to make something stick in the human memory, confusion is key. Follow logical methods for the majority of your writing but then throw in a puzzling non sequitur or something perhaps slightly offensive and non-committal to end your message for that much-coveted WTF? response. Confusing people requires the artist's casually focused attention: too many left-field references and people are lost and afraid of you, too few and people are bored.

["Early signs your kid may have a problem"]