manchicken here…

So, I imagine that some of you are thinking, “hey, where’s that manchicken guy?  Did he get bored with blogging?  What gives?” while others are thinking “yay!  That manchicken jerk shut his trap!  It’s about time.”
 Well, to the former I say no, I didn’t lose interest, I’m merely on holiday downstate visiting family in celebration [...]

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Wow. So GNU/Linux is just another product to some people. I find that concerning. Torvalds didn’t write it to be a product, Stallman didn’t write the compiler to be a product, and I don’t think the KDE or GNOME folks did it for that reason either. I know I certainly don’t [...]

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Normally I would be thrilled about these weather conditions, but today I’ve gotta drive downstate. This is no good. I’m looking out my window now, and there’s still snow coming down. There was a healthy break, and the radar looks like it’ll break again shortly, but man, I’m hoping that the interstates [...]

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Okay, so I know I’m late. Sorry ’bout that. My wife gave me this new game and with that and work and hacking and cool videos that I’ve been blogging I’ve neglected you. I’m a naughty chicken. Can you ever forgive me? Aww, thanks, you’re a sweetie. Let me [...]

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manchicken announces a Free software bounty!
Price: I can currently put up $20 for this. If anybody is interested in helping fund this bounty, please contact me at manchicken (at) members.fsf.org.
Synopsis: This is a bounty for a program that will convert videos from YouTube and other popular flash video sites to a non-encrypted video codec [...]

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Okay, so if you like Stallman, and you like… foreign languages… this is the post for you. YouTube and manchicken proudly present, beaucoup de Stallman en les langues etrages!
(no, I don’t speak french, but like many arrogant people I pretend like I do; if you’d like to translate in the comments, please feel free)

Richard [...]

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So any of you who have been house hunting in a small town will know what I’m about to go through. Today, my wife and I will be humbling ourselves at a grocery store in a small town to locate some rental properties. We’re looking in the lovely town of Manteno (if you [...]

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For those of you who say there’s nothing but crap on YouTube, I have proof that you are 100% incorrect. Below is the link to the world’s coolest YouTube video. You should really see this. If you do not have a Flash plugin, check out the Windows 386 post for a link [...]

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Hello all you happy people. I’ve been noticing that people–myself included–are asking many questions without checking available resources first. This is my way of chastising myself and reminding others of this wonderful thing that Ubuntu did. It’s called a Wiki, and it is of near-infinite use. Almost anything that you want [...]

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So I’m having fun with this horrifying multimedia extravaganza. If any of you know who Richard Stallman is–who doesn’t?–you know that he will not be the next American Idol (and I don’t think it would particularly bother him).
Well, he has recorded a song about freedom in software and how it benefits hackers, and society [...]

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