A fractal-era blog, reopened · 2006–2007
Mundo fearleX
“No hay mayor placer que el de compartir lo que has aprendido.”
There is no greater pleasure than sharing what you have learned.
For one year a self-taught coder wrote here in Spanish about fractals, Ubuntu, CSS and Final Fantasy. The 73 posts are back at their old addresses, each with an English summary and the original text underneath.
Fractals · Nov 2006 – May 2007
Nine plates
The author's renders, each posted with a line or two of caption. The originals are on the author's Flickr; the plates here are drawn index marks that link to each post.
- Plate 01
Eyes On Me
November 29, 2006 - Plate 02
Exploding Inside
November 29, 2006 - Plate 03
Sword
November 29, 2006 - Plate 04
Inferno Request
November 30, 2006 - Plate 05
WaveS
January 17, 2007 - Plate 06
ReborN
April 13, 2007 - Plate 07
Consuming Flames
April 14, 2007 - Plate 08
One
May 6, 2007 - Plate 09
Lights at the End
May 10, 2007
The most-linked post
The photographer who hated his most important photo
In April 2007 the blog retold the story of Kevin Carter's Pulitzer photograph from Sudan. Nearly twenty years later it still draws more links than anything here except the front page.
Tech notebook
Screens, drivers, desktops
A display explainer people still cite, and a year of getting Linux to behave on a 2007 PC. Open the notebook.
- June 26, 2007Understanding TFT, LCD, plasma and OLEDThe most-linked technical post on the blog. It explains that TFT is a kind of transistor rather than a display, that most "TFT" screens were TFT…
- January 15, 2007Installing Beryl on Kubuntu with an Nvidia cardThe longest tutorial on the blog. A GeForce 6200 in a Pentium 4 machine with onboard Intel graphics crashed the kernel on every Linux live CD. The…
- June 2, 2007KDE 4: KWin takes on Beryl and CompizA partial translation of a KDE.News article on the compositing effects being built into KWin for KDE 4, so long-time KDE users could have…
- May 10, 2007Install Ubuntu without touching your hard driveA translated write-up, via Lifehacker, of Wubi, a Windows installer that ran Ubuntu from a file on an XP system with no partitioning and could be…
Journal
The last posts
- A thousand apologiesMil disculpas
- Brazil win the Copa América, 3-0 over ArgentinaBrasil conquista la Copa América al vencer a Argentina (3-0)
- Bill Gates is no longer the richest man on EarthBill Gates ya no es el hombre más rico de la Tierra.
- Russia launches a US prototype for a space hotelRusia lanza un satélite de EEUU para un hotel en el espacio.
- Meme: eight confessions[Meme] 8 Confesiones
All 73 posts · 2006: 18 · 2007: 55
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