If you are full-blooded, you get to wear the full gear, feathered bone breastplate and all, and nobody gets to complain. You can even wear those god-awful “Native inspired” clothes that always seem to turn up in flea market booths and mall kiosks at Christmas. Hell, put bear fat in your hair if you want. […]

Since I’ll forget… Intrepid didn’t install openssh-server by default, only the client. When SSH bitches about “Host key verification failed”, do: sudo rm -rf .ssh/known_hosts Also, I’m in love. I get asked for the keyring pw on login to connect, but Intrepid doesn’t annoy me as openSUSE did by asking for it again every goddamned […]

Pretty, too, or at least it’s getting there. The Intrepid install went fine; took about 28 minutes from clicking the Install icon (after checking the Live CD to make sure wireless was going to work OOTB–it did) to a fully ready-to-use desktop, which is a few extra minutes, but that’s because I used manual partitioning […]

F5 F5 F5 F5… 🙂 Yeah, it’s finally 8.10 release day, and although the countdown timer is gone, I still see “Coming Soon!” I think I’ll ditch openSUSE after all. Sorry, cute little green chameleon-dude. Do I have time to do an install on either machine today? Hells, no! Do I still feel the need […]

I want to like this show. I love Mythbusters, and I think that the only hope for that other lame-ass show…uh…Smash Labs is to kill it with fire and scatter the ashes to the four winds. I was hoping that with three nerds and one “build it” guy, and what appeared to be fairly interesting […]

Interesting, the odd things that stay in our auditory memories. Snippets of TV and radio commercials, the way a colleague said a particular word, the sound of a wedding ring clicking against a stainless steel sink when your grandmother or mother shook water off her hands after washing dishes. I think I probably remember a […]

This was posted to an Ubuntu list. The guy could’ve just said nothing, but took the time to find the list and say thanks. Made my day. 🙂 This post is for all of you out there who have developed or contributed to Linux/Ubuntu projects and all of the open source coders who read this. […]

I still don’t understand the Lame Duck Challenge Free Offer, but that’s because CodeWeavers had to put up a bare-bones, reduced bandwidth version of their home page after their servers got slammed. Apparently, for some reason that may or may not have something to do with The Chimperor, they have put up fully unlocked builds […]

October is too long. Okay, so yeah, I should be working, and the house was hit over the weekend by a tornado who wears a wedding ring that looks just like mine, so I wouldn’t have time to do it today anyway, but I want Intrepid to be final release. If stupid October was as […]

I was just reading a thread in the UF about some guy, a n00b, who’s trying to get dual monitors working in Hardy; his first ever Linux setup (technically dual-boot XP and Hardy). I have dual monitors and have had since I was still using Gutsy a year ago, but I also have an Nvidia […]