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The Expanse About this blog About I am Eric Hameleers, and this is People, make sure you reserve a slot in your monday schedule to watch the first where I think out loud. Alien’s ARM episode of ’s new series (10 episodes recorded in advance): More about me. The Expanse is an epic story about the human race that is on a crossroads: it will Archive either destroy itself… or expand beyond our solar system. PDO Powered There are not many science fiction movie series that are honoring the science – most Your feedback Search current science fiction is just sitcoms interwoven with something inexplicable. Ever Sponsoring since Babylon 5, I have not been excited as much as I am now. Please consider a small donation: My Favourites Famous sed one-liners How to use ip instead of ifconfig Linux Questions Open Source Onderwijs Steaming Penguins Techrights

Slackware Ktown (KDE packages) LQWiki Slackware FAQ LQWiki Slackware links Multilib stuff My Wiki My slackstuff My tweets Robby’s place Slackware Documentation Project Slackware Linux Slackware Linux Essentials Slackware RSS feeds The theatric version is based on a series of novels called The Expanse (5 so far, and Willy Sudiarto’s SlackBlogs more in the pipeline) written by a duo that assumed the pen name James S.A. Corey. slackbuilds.org Taking place two centuries in the future, when humans have mostly depleted the natural resources on Earth and colonized Mars (for expanding human living space) Calendar and the Asteroid Belt (for its resources), the cold war between the three populations December 2015 is about to get hot. In the center of the story is a rich girl gone rogue, who has come into contact with an alien probe containing a genetic code alteration template (need M T W T F S S to keep this vague in order not to spoil the storyline). Story lines on Earth, Mars, the 1 2 3 4 5 6 Belt and in space are revolving around the devastating effects the alien genetic code 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 has on the world around it, and the result is a solid and exciting space opera. Daniel 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Abraham and Ty Franck, the author duo, are also the script writers for the SyFy 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 episodes which should be a guarantee for a a faithful interpretation of the books. I 28 29 30 31 read all of them, the story draws you in and won’t let you go. The combination of « Nov fast-paced action and contemplative chapters worked as a booster for my imagination. I like it when a written story is able to visualize itself in my mind, many Alien's Slackware books are just (exciting) stories but without a properly crafted and believable world packages Or you can donate bitcoin: in which the story unfolds. I could totally connect with the main character Holden’s Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:15:56 GMT quest for a good cup of coffee, regardless of the precarious situations he finds flashplayer-plugin: updated to himself in. 11.2.202.559. Security fix. See http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash- player/apsb16-01.html If you are not so much into movies, at least take the opportunity to buy or Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:20:08 borrow the books, they are worth it. GMT chromium-dev: updated to 49.0.2593.0. chromium-dev- pepperflash-plugin: updated to 20.0.0.248. Needs chromium- dev. chromium-dev-widevine- plugin: updated to 49.0.2593.0. Share this: Package contains the Widevine Content Decryption Module Google Twitter Facebook Reddit Email (CDM) 1.4.8.824, extracted from official Chrome-unstable binaries (needs chromium-dev of the Thanks to TekLinks in same version). Birmingham, AL, for providing Like this: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:23:40 colocation and bandwidth. GMT libreoffice: built version 5.0.4 for Slackware 14.1. Note: major Page Rank update from the previous 4.4.5! Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:39:30 Like GMT libva-vdpau-driver: rebuilt the One blogger likes this. version 0.7.4 specifically for - Fame current. You need this to use GPU-assisted video hardware Posted: 12 December, 2015 in Me. decoding in a VA-API enabled Tags: book, sci-fi application and using Nvidia's binary drivers.

Alien's unofficial « Previous post Next post » KDE Slackware packages Comments Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:06:21 GMT Recent posts Comment from Jen Here is the December release of Posted: December 13, 2015 at 01:06 Plasma 5: KDE 5_15.12 for Beta3 of Slackware Live Slackware-current, consisting of Edition is available Requested from the library! the KDE Frameworks 5.17.0, KDE 5_15.12 for Slackware- Plasma 5.5.1 and Applications current 15.12.0. Please read the Comment from Mike Langdon accompanying README file for LibreOffice 5.0.4 for Posted: December 13, 2015 at 13:42 detailed installation and upgrade Slackware-current instructions! Thanks for the heads up! I don’t watch much TV, but this will have to be on my Slackware multilib updates Wed, 9 Dec 2015 00:22:57 to match the changes in list. GMT slackware-current current/testing/deps/json-glib: updated to 1.0.4. The Expanse Comment from alienbob current/testing/kde/telepathy/kaccounts- Posted: December 13, 2015 at 14:05 integration: applied a patch to fix Recent comments breakage in the KDE Telepathy Hi MIke david on Beta3 of Slackware accounts connection. Live Edition is available The first episode has been online for a couple of weeks already, in advance of the Robinspi on Slackware Live television premiere: http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/videos/101-dulcinea Alien's multilib Edition – Beta 2 Unfortunately that video can not be watched outside the US. packages However, a smart Slacker knows how to use proxies and circumvent that insignificant Pi on Beta3 of Slackware Live barrier Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:51:37 Edition is available I watched this first episode twice, because it is crammed with background information. If GMT ikke on Beta3 of Slackware you have not read the books or at least the first book, you’ll have a hard time getting all 13.37/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 Live Edition is available that’s going on. packages. 14.0/slackware64- Still I think that even for the un-initiated, this will be a gripping and exciting story. Can’t alienbob on Slackware Live compat32: Refreshed the Edition – Beta 2 wait for the second episode. *compat32 packages. 14.1/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 Comment from Kingbeowulf packages. current/slackware64- Posted: December 13, 2015 at 20:51 compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. Looking forward as well. Its the next book series after The Wheel of Time series I’m currently addicted to. We have very good independent bookstore here that gets my Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:01:17 disposable cash on a regular basis (http://www.powells.com/) GMT current/glibc-2.22_multilib- There has been a dearth of decent space opera. The Star Trek series’ were just so-so, x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed Babylon 5 was good, Firefly was VERY good (an NO sound in space – excellent!). As for the empty /etc/nscd.conf.new. rest, well, I’ll pretty much watch any SF no matter the quality. Its gotten so bad that I fire current/glibc-i18n-2.22_multilib- up U.F.O and Space:1999 on Hulu. “the Expanse” gets me as excited as a new Slackware x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. release. current/glibc-profile- 2.22_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/glibc-solibs- Comment from Brad 2.22_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Posted: December 14, 2015 at 00:02 Rebuilt.

Thanks for the recommendation. Will give it a try. Meta Log in Comment from ponce Entries RSS Posted: December 14, 2015 at 19:35 Comments RSS I watched the first episode before reading this and, yes, I liked it. WordPress.org recently a dear friend pointed me toward the battlestar galactica series post-2000 as the best tv sci-fi ever: I had never watched any (I hadn’t liked the old ones so I was biased) and gotta say I was not disappointed at all: let’s see if this gets as good as that!

Comment from fabio Posted: December 15, 2015 at 03:32

Many thanks for the heads up! Got the first book and reading it before diving into the tv show. So far (16% of the book says the reading app) and it’s really worth it.

Comment from joshee Posted: December 15, 2015 at 04:15

Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) was phenomenal. I hope this new series will be just as good. Thanks for pointing it out!

Comment from Darth Vader Posted: December 15, 2015 at 16:11

Superb series, indeed. Loved first episode.

Yeah, SyFy as in its ol-good days, when the HD torrents are ready and uploaded by our American friends, in 30 minutes after airing the episode!

Oops! I for one, NEVER, BUT NEVER I torrented sci/fi! I wait candid one frakking year to be aired in Europe, of course!

BTW, how it is called your native language, Dutch, well … native? As in ‘Dutch Language’ in Dutch?

Comment from alienbob Posted: December 15, 2015 at 16:36

Hi Darth Vader… Dutch is written as “Nederlands” in dutch,

Comment from Darth Vader Posted: December 15, 2015 at 18:39

Thanks, I needed this information for a colleague, to insert in a site.

Comment from Deny Dias Posted: December 16, 2015 at 13:44

[SPOILER ALERT!!!]

Thanks for the tip, Eric! I’m in looking for anything SciFi lately (real world just sucks nowadays), so your tip come in a very god moment.

I watched The Expanse S01E01 yesterday night. Kinda liked it, but… doppler effect?!? In the outer space? Why, why in the hell directors/producers keep doing that?!?

It’s just beautiful a most physically correct approach as we see in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. But no! They insist in those low pitched noise and now we’ve got even doppler!

Aside of that detail, it’s a really good, entertaining SciFi what I see in The Expanse.

Comment from Niki Kovacs Posted: December 16, 2015 at 21:26

Just watched the first episode and got hooked. Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll watch out for the books as soon as I get into town. Cheers!

Comment from Willy Sudiarto Raharjo Posted: December 17, 2015 at 01:56

downloaded ep 1-4 already. Will watch it for weekend

Comment from alienbob Posted: December 21, 2015 at 00:24

I watched the four episodes that were put online, the last one just now. I am blown away. Tense action, terrific scenes, brutal politics. This series will be here to stay if I am to take a bet. No series on television currently matches the depth of story and the fantastic execution. I love rail guns. I loved them in the book already.

And watching these episodes made some things come together that I did not understand when reading the first book. After reading all five books of course, I know the full story and how it plays out but I had forgotten about these initial events that set fire to the epic. Write a comment

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