All posts tagged: joyfully

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum

Published by skeptic

This was the first Linux OS I ever used. Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The Virtual OS Museum gives you a peek at old-school OSes. You can run any one of hundreds of operating systems. All you need to make this free tool work is VirtualBox. Every so often, a Linux project comes to my attention that makes me rejoice over this amazing operating system and how far it’s come. One such initiative — recently brought to my attention — truly blew me away. It’s called the Virtual OS Museum. With VirtualBox, this museum lets you run various operating systems that are no longer around. Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable. VirtualBox then opens to a Debian Linux instance, where you can select from a very long list of operating systems to run. Also: How to connect to a VirtualBox virtual machine from your LAN I downloaded the Lite version of Virtual OS …

Go Gentle by Maria Semple review – a joyfully clever New York romcom | Fiction

Go Gentle by Maria Semple review – a joyfully clever New York romcom | Fiction

Published by Sam Flores

What would Marcus Aurelius have made of the Kardashians? Would Seneca have been amused by mindfulness apps? These were questions I had never consciously pondered before reading Maria Semple’s new novel. Neither, in my irrational and unvirtuous state, had I spent much time considering the application of Stoic philosophy to any other key aspects of modern life. Semple, best known for her exuberant, ingenious bestseller Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, here presents us with Adora Hazzard, Stoic philosopher and divorcee. Adora lives a contented life on New York City’s Upper West Side, spending her days tutoring the twin sons of an old-money family in philosophy and seeking to live according to Stoic virtues, without recourse to destabilising “externals”. But her settled life is soon disrupted by that most classic of externals, the handsome stranger. “Curse these alluring men who throw us off our game!” (Marcus Aurelius, paraphrased.) What follows is tricky to categorise. Is it a knockabout comedy about the collective power of midlife women? (No, it isn’t, though it seems to gesture in that direction …