by Katherine Villyard | Apr 27, 2008 | geekiness
I woke up–slept in, ’cause I was up late upgrading–wandered over to the computer, and pressed the power button. It ran through the startup process into a black screen. Meh. Luckily, escape at the grub menu, running the recovery mode, and picking xfix...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 26, 2008 | geekiness
One of my other machines is busily upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) to 8.04 (Hardy). I did both a full backup and a backup of home first, just in case anything ends up hosed. Yikes. No, I don’t live dangerously. 😉 Sadly, Ubuntu has discontinued their PPC...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 14, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Someone recently asked me how I became a feminist. Let me set the scene for you. I’m ten years old, living in Ogden, Utah. My father is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, and I’m merrily exploring hitherto unimagined depths of unpopularity at Horace Mann...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 3, 2008 | sale
My story “In the Water” will appear in an upcoming issue of Fictitious Force!