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November 24, 2008
Score One for Ubuntu
I got a taste this evening of what folks find so nice about Ubuntu.
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Posted by dberger at 8:17 PM
November 17, 2008
g0g0g0
Posted by dberger at 9:20 PM
November 15, 2008
Red Ring of Death
After about two years of very occasional service (I can count the number of games played on my hands and have fingers left over) our XBox displayed the "Red Ring of Death" this evening, after locking up a couple times playing Lego Batman.
So I guess I join the ranks of those who've had to send their consoles in for repair. And just days before Left4Dead releases, of course.
Posted by dberger at 5:07 PM | Comments (1)
November 13, 2008
Ubuntu Install - Step-by-Step
19:23 As I type, I'm in the process of installing Ubuntu 8.10 onto my primary home machine.
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Posted by dberger at 7:32 PM | Comments (3)
On Covers
Over the past few weeks, the local NPR affiliate (and awesome Jazz station) had their annual membership drive. This makes listening to Morning Edition on the way to work, or All Things Considered on the way home, significantly less pleasant, and had me searching for alternative audio distraction.
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Posted by dberger at 9:28 AM
November 11, 2008
Package Manager Fail (followup)
Uninstalling KDE beta packages...
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Posted by dberger at 10:39 AM
Remembrance, and Thanks
To those who have served in times of conflict, doing a job most would rather not, my thanks and respect.
Posted by dberger at 8:41 AM
November 10, 2008
Ubuntu 8 - First Impressions
I needed a Linux box at work for some testing, and while I've been a "RedHat guy" since waaay back (RedHat 4.2), I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl. I downloaded the 8.04 64bit desktop ISO, burned a CD, and booted the installer.
A short while later, I had a mostly working machine - made more difficult only by the lack of in-built support for the Intel on-board NIC, which required me to grab drivers from sourceforge, and use a USB stick to get the machine on-line. (I say only knowing full well that such a situation would be a "dead end" for a normal user, even if they had a second machine from which they could google and download said drivers.)
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Posted by dberger at 9:52 PM
November 9, 2008
Now We're Cooking With Gas
Cooked the first "real meal" in the new kitchen - nothing fancy, flank steak with apple bacon (assembled by Costco), roasted herbed potatoes, and "Alan's Carrots." Boy did I miss a gas range - hot when you want it, cool when you don't, and no waiting for 5 minutes in between. The new broiler is awesome - like hell has opened up in my oven. And it makes me smile to know that running the range full bore is generating more BTU than the furnace that heats the whole house.
Posted by dberger at 7:35 PM | Comments (1)
November 7, 2008
package manager fail
$ uname -a
Darwin ... 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ man repair_packages
...
BUGS
repair_packages does not verify file contents or restore missing files;
It can only verify or repair filesystem permissions.
$ man pkgutil
...
BUGS
Package dependency analysis and reference counting are not yet available,
hence there is no --uninstall command yet.
Come on... I mean really.
FAIL.
Posted by dberger at 10:07 AM
November 4, 2008
Institutionalized Intolerance
I'm incredibly disappointed in California. Passing Prop 8 is the most intolerant, bigoted, and narrow minded behavior possible. It says it's ok to discriminate against people who are different from you. It says it's ok to impose your morals and values on someone else's life, even when their decisions have no affect on yours.
It's an act of cowardice and fear.
And I'm ashamed of it.
Posted by dberger at 8:59 PM | Comments (1)
Straight Up or On the Rocks
Dawnise turned me on to an article on slashfood about bar-tending - something of a fascination of mine. The author had a recommended reading list, and I was happy to find that the library had Straight Up or On the Rocks in their collection. I tossed it on my request queue, and it arrived the other day.
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Posted by dberger at 7:15 AM
November 2, 2008
When Things That Should be Simple, Aren't...
Dawnise reads lots of craft sites - and quite often these sites have tutorials that she wants to preserve. In Windows, it was simple - drag-select the text and images in Firefox, copy, paste into Word (or WordPad, or some other rich text editor) and viola, the document, with formatting and images, in an offline form she could archive.
Turns out that on the Mac, this is what we in the business call a "pain in the ass."
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Posted by dberger at 10:42 AM | Comments (1)
November 1, 2008
Size Really Does Matter
The kitchen is mostly done - when I got home yesterday the dust barriers were gone, most of the trim work was finished, and by Monday or Tuesday it should be done.
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Posted by dberger at 9:45 PM