Technohippies are a breed of their own. They are not malicious, but only interested in the way things work. They have a broad wisdom of many different technologies. Ignorance and hatred is looked down upon by the technohippy. The technohippy embraces the environment and will do as much as they can to protect it and help it flourish. All in all, a technohippy is a philosophically-open eccentric geek.
Right. I’ve just recently had my 21st, and my wonnerful parents got me a Lenovo Thinkpad R61i after a bit of research as to what works well with Linux.
First step – upgrade Vista Business to XP Pro then resize the partition to a lot less space
Second step – install Debian Lenny. This was a helluva [...]
OK. I’m only part way through this book, and only browsing it at the moment (cant really put it to too much use until I’m out of my current flat…) but The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency (Amazon Link) is a really really good book.
It is an English book so all northern hemisphere stuff, but [...]
… new blog to subscribe to. “Frogblog” talks about some quite intersting issues, even though it is slightly biased being a blog from the Green Party. It does have good points about most of the issues it talks about though, so good to read with an open mind. eg:
In his talk this week, Al Gore [...]