2009 February

LINUX:
Universal Studios’ new studio re-do: Harrison console powered by linux.  Wow….
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Alpha 5
Video: Ted Ts’o on Ext4, BtrFS, First Steps with Linux
Thunderbird 3, Beta 2 available.
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Dog, missing 9 years, returned to family in Ky
Finally, some good news with the word Kentucky in it.
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McCartney Hopes Rock Band Game Will Keep Beatles Music Alive
Sir [...]

LINUX DEPARTMENT:
New XFCE release is out (4.6.0)
updated desktop, panel, rewritten multiple display+clock setup, kill unresponsive windows, faster session manager - take the tour….
Making NetworkManager work with suspend/resume
VMware, Novell hatch virtual appliance scheme
Commandline 101: Basic Directory Commands
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Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop
That’s not self-incrimination at all….
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Listening to music with degrading sexual lyrics could prompt teenagers [...]

In a speech to the UN Security Council during a session on Iraq, Susan Rice said once the US withdraws its troops from Iraq, it would ’seek an end to Iran’s ambitions to acquire an illicit nuclear capacity, and its support for terrorism’.
“Never.   I never said that.”
But we have tape.
“No.  Not at all.”
It’s a video [...]

Just a short while ago it was announced that Ford would have computers in some of their cars and that the computers would have a Microsoft operating system.  So naturally I got to thinking about the end result of this:

you will have to reboot your car at least once a day

you will not be able [...]

As you no doubt have read, I’m having hard drive problems with my laptop.  It’s not so much a problem as a total failure but sometimes we like to stay optimistic (or use Classic British Understatement<tm>, even though I’m not British).
The hard drive continued to sit there and confound Spinrite.  I believe that after a [...]

Having financial problems?  Were you sold a loan you couldn’t afford?  Wanna stick it back to the bank?  Need a few extra months to straighten things out?  Try this:
When the bank tries to foreclose, tell them to Produce the Note.  You have a right to see the note.  This can result in anything from delaying [...]

Ok, network people, time to stand up and be counted.  Or at very least, do some counting.
By default, my firewall at work gives me a list of the top twenty five sites visited, among other things.  Every now and then I look at this list, especially when I’m feeling a lot of good will toward [...]

Two weeks ago a ball joint failed catastrophically in my car, taking out everything within a one foot radius of it.  I suspect it overheard my wife talking about having a few spare dollars.  It cost `only’ eight hundred dollars to remove it from the shop.
A week ago, my wife heard some squeaking from her [...]

Another month, another massive credit card breach
Visa and MasterCard are alerting and canceling cards.  The breach might have been at Heartland, which was the same provider hit last time. Idiots.
United Airlines Offers Drinks To “The Idiots In Coach“
How many of us have only wished we could vent on the job?
The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News [...]

I have a running rant about Flash being worthless and the symptom of a much larger problem with design: give them blinky lights and they’ll be happy.  Last night I went to watch a YouTube video and the entire laptop froze.  SEE- Flash ate my laptop :)
It would not reboot, no matter what I did. [...]