Idling User

Gowanus, Brooklyn

QIV has been my image viewer of choice for Linux for at least 4 years. It’s very fast and very bare bones, with some on-the-fly read-only image manipulation (brightness, gamma, contrast). Don’t expect thumbnailing, cataloging or any features like that out of it. My favorite feature is attaching scripts to the 0-9 […]

Groklaw has posted a document that discusses the use of Linux in the Department of Defense. One reader’s comment points to an 1992 mailing list post indicating some use of Linux at the DoD very early in the Linux’s history. It’s great to see published support like this, even if it is from […]

October 27th, 2004 marks 100 years since the first NYC subway lines went into operation, and 150 years since the start of elevated trains in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Check out http://www.nycsubway.org/.