damn, well mine is leaking from the engine oil cooler (
Putting on the new personality...
...the day to day adventures of a door to door preacher
1.9.07
Blitzer disses Cingular
Speaking of CNN...Wolf Blitzer, during a commercial break of their streaming audio, lays down how he feels about Cingular's phone service and their false claims of dropped call frequency.
"Every other phone call was dropped...in this area. Yeah, yeah that's...don't believe that #$%&..."All this the day when CNN's front page highlights Apple's newly announced iPhone, which just so happens to have an exclusive contract with Cingular. Nice mute button slip! Then, when witty banter ensues when some female guest (Susanne?) joins the cast. There was (gasp) talk about "The Situation Room" becoming sexual theatre.
5:16 pm - TBS interview with Baton Bob
CNN has a video clip from an interview of Bob Jamerson, aka, Baton Bob.
It's listed as "Humor: Meet Baton Bob". The clip comes from a series done for TBS Storyline, I'm assuming dated this week.
12.29.06
Year end post
Where have I been? What's life treating me like? Have I forgotten about this thing?
Here. Great. Nope.
I've been really busy at the job. The ole company got bought out, so having to prepare for learning new networks/products and documenting the same from our side. But, that's all on the clock, so it's not too much of a burden.
I did, though, start working a new schedule...four, 10 hour days. Now, that's a butt kicker. It's nice to have 3 days off, but it's amazing how your body has to get use to working the longer hours (7am-6pm).
When I was given the opportunity to work this shift I couldn't take a Monday or Friday, so I opted for Wednesday. That decision takes people off guard at first. But, after I explain that I never work more than two days in a row, and have off a day when the streets are not crowded...and often backs into holidays, they see things my way.
OK, mid-day break is over. Time to get back to work
10.31.06
Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10 dist-upgrade successful
No sooner than me installing Ubuntu Dapper Drake (version 6.06) that Ubuntu Edgy Eft (version 6.10) get released. Fortunately, you can upgrade to the new version quite simply.
To be noted, there have been numerous problems experienced by people choosing to do the upgrade, rather than doing a clean install. But considering that my laptop was still a "stock" setup, I decided to take a stab at the upgrade process.
I just entered the command:
gksu "update-manager -c"at the terminal and told Ubuntu to upgrade. About an hour and a half later, and two reboots, I was up and going just fine. Seems that most problems experienced by those trying to upgrade are due to the following reasons: 1) Changing repositories from the default in /etc/apt/sources.list 2) This reason
10.23.06
Ubuntu - For the Win
Couple of years back, I tried to switch and stick with Linux. It was an earnest attempt, but it was super short lived. Getting Fedora Core 3 and my Dell Inspiron to play nicely was still too far above my head. Not that I didn't want a challenge, but I was too use to the "Windows world" and my expectations of what I thought of as a "challenge" was sorely misplaced.
Over time (and due to the job), I found myself using Linux more and more. Whether it was simply to use the tools that are native to Linux or migrating whole responsibilities over to it, I slowly learned by way around it. Now, I'm hooked.
Ubuntu Linux has found a nice little home on my laptop. I'm still tweaking things (fonts and network shares) so that they pass the "wife test", but I currently can't see myself going back to a Microsoft operating system. From a tech standpoint, I love the freedom I have with Linux, and from a consumer standpoint, I like free.
Ubuntu still has some significant areas that currently keep it from being a total "pick up and go" OS alternative for the masses (like the fact that MS core fonts are not installed and websites look strange with out them and lack of broad, easy to use product support). Those shortcomings are slight considering that so much help is available online.
Oh well, this wasn't meant to be a review. Ubuntu is what I've been looking for. It's an incredible presentation to the Open Source world and alternative operating systems.
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